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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1908.
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NO. 17.
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We are all neighbors in
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business.
——
for the town and community, despite his occasional mis-
takes, may be a great deal more than the kickers themselves
are doing. Did THAT ever occur to you?
helps the others. What hurts one hurts the others. Every
community is a mutual benefit association, whether organ-
ized or just running wild. The printer is a charter member.
If you had no printer=—no newspaper—how would you
like that? Do you know what happens to towns that don’t
support a newspaper? Nothing happens. Nothing ever
happens in a town like that.
happen in a town the newspaper comes along and tells about
The newspaper boosts the town.
and offers suggestions, by the editor or the readers, as to
further progress. Every copy of every issue advertises the
town. This is all free advertisement. It costs the town
nothing. It costs the people nothing. It is a part of the
In view of this fact, which nobody can dispute, it is
much better to pat the printer on the shoulder now and
then or to speak kindly of him than to kick him.
In the city of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., there has been-
for many years a eon-
spicuous signboard out-
side an office which
reads, “KICK THE
PRINTER.”
Bibulous persons
sometimes go inside to
carry out the apparent
reguest, but they dis-
cover that the printer is
‘a gentleman by the name
of Kick.
In every town there
are persons who, if they
do not actually feel like
kicking the printer—the
newspaper man—at any
rate do a lot of kick-
ing at the way he con-
ducts his paper.
Please DON’T kick
the printer; he is doing
the best he can.
And what he
does
this town. What helps one
As soon as things begin to
It records progress
| Ivo: DON’T KICK THE PRINTER.
THis is a season of the year when a
sentimental mother appears at the
school house with her sissy boy and
tells the teacher he is very high
spirited, and must not by whipped;
that he can be ruled by kindness and
kisses.
And thjs js the time of year
| A TowN that never has anything to
{do in a public way, is on the way to
the cemetery. Any citizen who will do
| nothing for his town, is helping to dig
[the grave. A man that curses the
| town, furnishes the coffin. The man
|
when the boys in school make a note | Who is so selfish as to have no time
of what the mother of the sissy boy
says, and resolve to thump the sissy
boy as soon as they catch him on the |
play ground.
As 17 is with right and wrong, good
and evil, so it is with failure and sue-
cess. Perseverance is the chief in-
of the compound that brings
suecess. There may be other elements
required—and usually there are—but
without this one, the mixture is idef-
fectual. Talent, intellect —genius itself
—may al} combine for a certain end,
bug if the foree of persistent industry
is not behind them, they will lag upon
the road and never reach the goal.
A NEWSPAPCR is in no sense a child
of charity. It eatns twice over every
dollar it receives, and it is second to
no enterprise in contributing to the up-
“building of a community. Its patrons
reap far more benefits from its pages
than its publishers, and in calling for
the support of the community in which
it is published, it asks for no more
than in all fairmess belongs to if,
though generally it receives less.
Patronize and help your paper as you
would any other enterprise, because it
helps you, and not as an act of charity.
——
THE matter of teaghing music in our
public schools is a feature that should
not be overlooked. Some schools have
introduced this feature with marked
success, and making melody in the
heart is found to make better pupils,
more studious pupils, and imparts to |
them an acquisition to one of «the
greatest profitable pleasures in life.
We hope our school marcagers and
faculty will consider this feature, and
at no distant day make this one of the |
requisitions. A singing people are a
Joyous people, good-natured people,
more law-abiding people, will make
better citizens, live longer and die hap-
pier.
| from his business to give to city af-
| fairs, is making tke shroud. The man
| who will not advertise, is driving the
| hearse. The man who is always pull-
ing back from any pablic enterprise,
throws boquets on the grave. The
man who is so stingy as to be howling
hard times, preaches the funeral, sings
the doxology, and thus the town lies
buried.
| " GUILTY OF COUNTERFEITING.
| Passing counterfeit money is no
worse than substituting some unknown
worthless remedy for Foley's Honey
and Tar, the great cough and cold
remedy that cures the most obstinate
coughs and heals the lungs. Elk Lick |-
Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor.
1-1
J. B. Jackson Leaves an Estate Es-
timated at $1,100,000.
| The will of John B. Jackson, late
psesident of the Fidelity Title & Trust
Company, was probated yesterday and
letters testamentary were issued to the
Fidelity Title & Trust Company. The
estate was estimated by the executor
at $1,100,000.
The will was made May 25, 1892, and
two codicils were added, one dated
June 4, 1894, and the other Jaauary 27,
1896.
After making several specific be-
quests of pictures, vases and silver-
ware to his two sisters, and other rela-
tives, he gives $7,500 to the Church
Home Association, $10,000 to his
nephew, George W. J. Bissell, $5,000 to
| Henry R. Scully and $10,000 to Arthur
| M. Scully, cousins, and $5,000 to George
| A. Gofmly, his confidential clerk.
The residue of his estate he leaves to
his sister, Mary L. Jackson, with the
direction that she pay her sister, Anna
M. J. Bissell, one-third of the net in-
come therefrom.—Pittsburg Gazette
| Times.
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 S. 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
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.
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THE GREATEST PROBLEM.
There is no problem before the peo-
ple of such magnitude as the open
dramshop. It concerns the happiness
of the home—the people and the very
existence of the nation. You say that
there are other great questions before
the people, and we admit it. You say
there is the tariff question and the re-
vision of the tariff. But ask that wo-
man you meet in tears, poorly dressed,
what is the great question before the
country today, and she will not tell
you it is the tariff, but it is the open
dramshop that is ruining her happi-
ness and her home.
-Viewed from the standpoint of the
financier, enough wealth is wasted an-
nually by the drink habit to build and
equip two railroads from New York to
San Francisco.
We are proud and justly so, of our
educational system, of our public
schools, of our colleges, of our rapidly
increasing halls of arts and sciences,
but apply the lurid touch of the incen-
diary to every one of these schools,
colleges and halls, and in fifty-two
weeks we could rebuild them all with
what goes into the till of the dram-
shop. Do you say in the light of all
this great waste that this question is
so small as to be only laughed and
sneered at and made the butt of ridi-
cule?
Every mechanic and workingman is
made the poorer by this traffic. Ban-
ish the saloon, and what do you sup-
pose would become of all the thou-
sands of dollars that now go into the
dramshops? All your lumber yards,
groceries and dry goods stores would
feel the impulse of increasing trade,
and there would be a rapid demand for
carpenters and mechanics of all kinds.
We read the other day the astonishing
fact that forty per cent. of the wage-
workers of the country do not own the
houses they live in, and twenty per
cent. live in crowded tenement houses
in our larger cities and towns. Take
$150,000,000 of the money worse than
wasted in drink, and you could build
150,000 homes.
HOW STATES GO DRY.
The foolish manner in which the re-
tail liquor business is conducted is so
patent and general that it may easily
be rated asthe most important single
factor in bringing victory to the anti-
saloon leaguers throughout the coun-
try. A typical illastration is about to
be given by the liquor men of White
Plains, according to reports from that
suburb. A local option law is in effect
there. Instead of submitting to the
clear will of the citizens, however ob-
noxious to them the mandate may be,
the liquor men are doing just what
thousands of their brethren elsewhere
have done to the ultimate injury of the
business—they are making ready to
avail themselves of every discoverable
loophole in the law. It is estimated
that the local option measure will not
eJectively close more than ten or fifteen
of the fifty dramshops against which it
was aimed. Only the wholesalers seem
to be decisively routed.
In the long run such tacties will bear
bitter fruit, as they have done repeated-
ly in other districts. By deliberately
and boastfully dodging the command of
the electorate, dealers must bring upon
their trade the enmity of many citizens
| who, though tolerant toward respect-
they would be infinitely better off
able saloons, set: their faces sternly
against the salgonkeeper who mocks
law and public opinion. When he
Sh a small community, where
his methods and their results are clear-
ly visible and observed by virtually the
whole papulation, he invites his best
friends to turn against him. The
strange thing is that he has been blind
to the trend of public sentiment, while
nearly forty million Americans have
been banishing saloons at every local
election for the last five years. The
saloonkeeper who reads in this unparal-
leled crusade only a fanatical dread of
alcohol, has not the intelliger.ce of a
tadpole. The bitterest foe of the liquor
busicess is the man who refuses to join
in maintaining the law and keeping
good order.—N. Y. Tribune Farmer.
THIS IS WORTH READING.
Leo F. Zelinski, of 68 Gibson St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., says: “I cured the most
annoying cold sore I ever had, with
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. I applied this
salve once a day for two days, when
every trace of the sore was gone.”
Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee
at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 25¢. 1-1
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE HOME?
What’s wrong with the home? asks
the Pittsburg Gazette Times after
commenting on a recent visit to Pitts-
burg by Judge Lindsey, of Denver.
Judge Lindsey has probably done more
towards making good citizens out of bad
boys than any other man in the United
States. He has made good, truthful,
honest, manly boys out of scores of
lads who were on the high road to
penitentiary and the gallows, not be-
cause they were worse by nature than
the common run of boys, but because
in their cases there was something
wrong with the home.
In Denver, ar in most other towns
and cities, many of the worst boys are
regular attendants of the Sunday
schools, yet are growing into criminals
and thugs at an alarmingly rapid rate.
This is not directly the fault of the
Sunday schools, but of the foolhardy,
negligent parents who have come to
look upon Sunday schools as insti-
tutions for the purpose of relieving
them of the care and trouble required
to bring their children up in the way
that they should go. Too many par-
ents allow their children to do about
as they please, except that the young-
sters are compelled to be regular at-
tendants at Sunday school, catechism.
etc. In other words, they expect the
church and the Sunday schools to give
them all the moral training they need
to make good men and good women of
them.
To such noodle-headed parents and
their families the work of the church
and the Sunday school is of little or no
benefit, for without proper home-train-
ing, the work of the church and the
Sunday school availeth nothing. The
children of such parents grow up with
the feeling that the only place folks
are expected or required to be good is
in Sunday school and in church, and
that any old thing will go at home or
on the street. Consequently their
fluency in repeating the catechism or
extracts from their Sunday school les-
sons is fully offset by their. fluency in
using profane language and all manner
of street slang and general impudence.
If such children were subjected to
good home discipline and never saw
the inside of a Sunday school room,
than under existing conditions. We
have even known of instances where
good, level-headed parents would not
peranit their children to go to Sunday
school, because they did not want them
to be associated with evil-minded and
spoiled children there that were unfit
associates for well diseiplined children
on the streets or in their homes. And
they could not be blamed for it, either.
Evil associates contaminate those they
come in contact with as readily in
Sunday school as elsewhere, and talk
and argue as we will, the grest truth
still remains that good home discipline
goes farther toward making good citi-
zens than all the Sunday schol and
church training in Christendom.
We do not need to go outside of our
own little city to see how utterly un-
availing is the moral training of the
church and the Sunday school when
not supplemented with good moral
training and. discipline at home. Go
through the Sunday schools of this
town and note the children in attend-
ance, and then watch their conduct on
the streets and elsewhere. You will
If you are a close observer, you will
day school pupils, boys who are cign-
rette stinkers and pimple-faced physiec-
ial and mental wrecks before they are
out of knee pants—boys who ean curse
and swear like sailors, show their
smartness by being impudent and
saucy to older people, and in a general
way proclaim their general” worth-
lessness to the world, and advertise
the fact that their parents are doing
nothing for their good in the home,
Not long ago about a half-dozen boys
came into THE Star office to see our
printing presses in operation. Some of
the lads were of the town’s prominent
families, but not one of them showed
any better breeding or home training
than the commonest kind of a cur pup.
Each of them had a large quid of to-
bacco in his mouth, and one and all
seemed to think it smart to see who
could squirt the most tobacco juice
over the floor. When we remonstrated
against that kind of conduct, we re-
ceived only a few insolent replies and
idiotic grins. The boys were all Sun-
day school pupils, too, and we know
that the parents of some of them have
often contributed money to foreign
missions. How much better it would
be for such parents to stamp out
heathenism in their own homes.
commenting on this subject, the Pitts-
burg Gazette Times gets off the fol-
lowing timely remarks, all of which
are only too true:
“Parental responsibility has come to
a low ebb, and discipline is almost
obsolete. The sacredness of the home
has become a farce in too many cases,
the father thinks the bowling alley is
far more sacred, and the mother plays
bridge or euchre as relaxation from
household cares. Children are hustled
off to school at the earliest possible
age, just to get them out of the way,
and then parents too often lock to the
school to do the rest. The breathless
whirl of pleasure-seeking also reacts
upon the child. Vaudeville shows and
skating rinks absorb the time, and
nervous energy that used to be con-
served at the fireside, around the even-
ing lamp. The solidarity of the family
is impaired—each member goes his own
way ; lodge, missionary society, dance,
basketball game, pool room or street,
and anon the saloon. No care is ex-
ercised over the young people’s choice
of companions; late hours are kept
without reproof or question. Does the
father who reads this know where his
boy was last night? Does the mother
know where her girl was? Do they
both realize that the enactment of a
curfew law is an insult to them. It
means that many parents are so erim- |
inally careless about their children
that the authorities must threaten
action to get them to do their duty.
“We would need no truant officers
nor juvenile courts if homes were con-
ducted as they should be. If cheap
amusements and soul-deadening pas-
times were tabood, and home-keeping
habits were revived, and parents re-
alized that they are responsible for
their children, not the teacher or the
policemen, penitentiaries would be less
crowded and socialists would have less
to talk about. The home is the basis
of society. It is sad, but true, as
Judge Lindsey has said, that ‘some-
thing is wrong with the homes.” ”
WAS IT GREEN?
A Matter for Garrett County Re-
publicans to Investigate.
During the late Presidential cam-
paign, a letter appeared in the Oak-
land Journal, signed “A Republican,”
purporting to be written at Grants-
ville, and in it the writer attacked
Candidate Taft on account of his re-
ligion, and urged all voters, irrespec-
tive of party, to vote for Bryan.
The ignoramus who wrote the letter
dubbed Mr. Taft an infidel, and de-
livered himself of much other foolish
and narrow-minded rot too numerous
to mention. .
There was much speculation at the
time as to who was guilty of writing
such silly twaddle, some blaming one
Republican and some another. Tae
STAR was not long in arriving at the
conclusion that the letter referred to
was not written by a Republican at
all, but by a big, whisky-fuddled,
mushy-brained Democratic lobster,
and we still believe that we were right
in our surmises.
However, there is nearly always
room to be mistaken in such matters,
and since a well-known Grantsville
Dmocrat has recently informed us that
then readily see just how many parents
school to give their children all the |
moral training they need, and you will |
also readily see what a sorry failure |
that kind of training is when it is not |
discipline in the home.
note a large number among the Bun-:
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publican conduet, his Republican con-
stituents should promptly “sit down’
on him good and hard. If not guilty,
he should be given a speedy vindi-
cation. Mr. Green should explain,
and the editor of the Oakland Journal
should also explain, for Tae Star's in-
formant said: “The editor of the
Journal called me in and showed me
the letter, which had Mr.Green’s signa-
ture to it, adding that he did not pub-
lish the name because Mr, Green re-
quested him to keep his name a secret.”
If our informant told the truth, the
editor of the Journal should explain
why he betrayed the confidence of a
correspondent who requested that his
identity should not be made known,
That kind of a request is always con-
strued as one of the conditions of the
publication of a communication, and
no publisher has a moral right to be,
tray the confidence of a correspondent,
unless the publisher was imgposdd upon
by an untruthful or an unlawful ar-
ticle, which he had accepted in good
faith, but learned afterwards that it
was false. We shall not disclose the
name of our informant, as we promised
not to do so, unless we can obtain
proof that he lied. In that event he
shall be thoroughly exposed, as he
should be.
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TROLLEY NEWS.
P. & M. Trolley Now Completed to
Garrett—Network of Electric Lines
for Somerset County at an Early
Date.
The P. & M. Street Railway Com-
pany, whose object is to build a system
of electric lines that will connect the
principal towns of Somerset county,
and also connect with the Johnstown
and Cumberland systems, now has a
continuous line completed from Salig-
bury to Garrett, via Meyersdale, with
the exception of the B. & O. crossing,
near Meyersdate, which is still in the
hands of the court. Passengers will be
transferred at the said crossing until
such time as the court grants permis-
sion for a grade crossing, or until an
underground or overhead crosging can
be constructed at that point. Follow-
ing we reproduce an item which ap-
peared in a recent issue of a Pittsburg
financial publication called “Money.”
The things set forth therein are doubt-
less somewhat exaggerated as to the
alleged short time in which all the
lines enumerated are to be built, but
that they will be built within the next
five years is not only a possibility, but
a strong probability. We publish the
following paragraphs for what they
are worth:
“Somerset county will, within a year
or less, be covered with a network of
trolley tracks, which will connect all
the large towns of the county. Con-
nection will be made with trolley lines
running to Johnstown, Connellsville
and Cumberland, Md. The Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland Street Railway
Company is the owner of the rights of
way over which the interurban trolley
service will be established. This con-
cern was recently victorious in a pro-
tracted battle in the courts of equity
in Somerset county. The Meyersdale
& Salisbury Street Railway Company,
which was organized several years
before the present traction company,
claimed certain rights of way in Elk
Lick and Summit townships. The
present company also claimed this
property, and Judge W. Rush Gillan,
of the Franklin county bench, deceded
the case in favor of the P. & M. com-
pany. This concern recently gave a
mortgage to the Farmers’ Loan &
Trust Company, of New York, for a
million dollars, this mortgage to se-
cure an issue of 250 $5,000 five per
cent. bonds, and 875 $1,000 five per
cent bonds.
“During the year 1909 the Pennsyl-
vania & Maryiand Railway Company
will construct and place in operation
trolley lines leading from Somerset to
Berlin, via the Plank road, from Som-
erset to Garrett by way of Beachdale,
thence to Meyersdale, and thence to
Salisbury. The lines from Meyersdale
to Garrett and Salisbury have been
constructed and are now in operation.
Trolley lines leading from Rockwood
to Somerset via the Cox’s creek road,
from Somerset to Friedens and thence
to Boswell, will also be constructed.
It is stated on reliable authority that
before snow flies a large force of men
will commence the work of grading
the rights of way leading to Somerset,
as the reported intention of the com-
pany is to complete the lines leading
to the county capital before commenc-
the letter alluded to was written by
publican member of the
Legislature,
guilty of such monkeylike and unre-
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! STAR office.
ing work on the lines leading to other
depend on the church and the Sunday | none other than Lawrence Green, Re- | parts of the county. Local people are
Maryland |
from Garrett county, it
weuld be well enough for the Republi- |
cans of that county to thoroughly in- |
supplemented by good training and ' vestigate the charge. If Mr. Green is!
highly in favor of the project, and are
ready to do anything in their power to
assist the traction company.”
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