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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1908.
NO. 18.
Once there was an Ox.
could pull a big load. He never balked, but always liked to
go straight ahead.
But the Ox had enemies.
There was the Flea and his whole big Family. “We
don’t care whether this Ox
and his Folks. “All we want is some of his blood.” Where-
pestered the Ox and gave him
2 upon the Fleas eternally
2 That Tired Feeling.
Then there was the Tom Cat and his brothers-—the
selload ..0..0..8..0 4
He was a fine, hefty Ox. He
travels or not,” said the Flea
Doubting Thomases.
pestered
Finally the Ox,
§ the Felines and the Fistes,
4, stopped and lay down on his job, and there was no more
going forward for him.
KEY TO THE SITUATION: The town is the Ox.
The Fleas and the Felines and the Fistes are those citizens
who criticise every progressive movement and do every-
petty ways to make the Ox quit
pulling in- the right direction.
thing they can in their
MORAL: Give the Ox a chance
holler, “Git up!”
“We don’t know whether
this Ox is going the right
way or not,” said the
Thomases. “Anyhow,
we'll scratch his back for
him.” Whereupon the
Felines jumped on the
back of the Ox and
scratched him for fair,
which made the Ox ex-
ceedingly sorrowful.
Then there was the
Fiste Pup and his Fellow
Fistes—a whole litter of
Fistes. “We don’t care
how slow the Ox goes,”
said the Fistes; “tho
slower the merrier for
us. All we want is to
lag behind him and bite
his Tail.” Whereupon
the Fistes snapped con-
tinually at the Tail of the
Ox, which gave the Ox a
mighty mournfulness.
constantly with the Fleas and
got to looking sickly. He
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Waar President Eliot had to say | does more to stir up the devil in a man
about the injury done to child labor by
the union rules regulating labor, ought
to have the attention of the unions.
It is the fact that under the system
the children are largely cut off from
learning a trade, in consequence of the
unions’ jealousy of the apprentices.
This, in turn, leads to the demand for
trade schools at the public expense.
If boys are going to learn trades, they
must be given an opportunity some-
how, and all the unions cannot prevent
it.—Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentine].
We hold it to be a self-evident fact
that no school is doing its duty when
it trains not its pupils in the art of
composition and voice culture in the
way of public speaking and reading.
These very requirements are to be met
invari-
ably on entering higher courses or
training than our public school, and
it is unjust to make. such a demand,
and neglect the training for it until
the Eleventh hour. The demand is all
right, but the neglecting of early train-
ing for.it .is absolutely wrong. It
should begin in the lowest grade by
leading the child to express inits own
language a description of what it sees,
and continued in every department,
and most thoroughly drilled through-
out the highest grade.
THE rods of rancid rot daily printed
in the big city papers about the vulgar
rich, their sayings and doings; their
comings and goings; what they eat and
how they eat it; what they drink and
how much of it; what they wear. and
how, when and where they wear its
minute write-ups, with pictorial illus-
trations of every-dud worn by brain-
less wemen, full description of every
garment, including the embroidered
and hemstitched clothes prepared be-
forehand for the unborn brats—all
their fulsome, nauseous stuff drooled
out daily in the big papers, by the |
column and by the whole page—a sort |
of gross pandering to riches—a servile
worship of snobacracy;a putting of the
forehead to the ground when the
money moloch passes down the street,
| than all else combined. This sort of
man worship may go all right in coun-
| tries where one man is acknowledged
to be better than another, but it will
| never go in this land of the free and
| the home of the brave; and the sooner
| the big papers let up on this daily
| flouting of money in the faces of decent
| people, the quicker all sorts of devil-
| ishness will cease to be a menace to
our government.
— ee.
| THE two arguments most relied up-
| on by license advocates are that the
no-license law is broken, and that the
city gets a large sum of money from
{those receiving licenses in license
years. If the idea of the license men
that a law that is Lroken, as the no-
license law is broken, should be re-
pealed, should prevail, there would be
no saloons under the license part of
the law. In.a recent address, John T,
Shea. of Cambridge, gave figures "to
show the effect of no-license upon the
finances of Cambridge, which has been
a no-license city for 23 years, He said
that the taxes on the increase in prop-
erty valuation in 10 years under no-
license over the increase in valuation
in 10 license years yielded four times
the amount in taxes that would have
been derived from liquor licenses in
that time. The average tax rate in 10
no-license years was $15.71 cents, and
the average rate in 10 license years,
$16.45. Mr, Shea said that President
Eliot, of Harvard College, once opposed
to no-license, was now in favor of it
and had said that it was of great ad-
vantage that Harvard University was
situated in a no-license city. Gov.
Russell, once opposed to no-license,
came out strongly in favor of no-
license in an inaugural address when
he was elected ‘mayor of Cambridge
after that city had been under the no-
license regime three years.—Fitchburg
| (Mass.) Sentinel.
OLD PAPERS for sale at Tur Sran
office. They are just the thing for
pantry shelves, wrapping paper and
| cartridge paper for the miners. Five
cents buys a large roll of them. 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.
Members of Assembly—J. W. Ends-
ley, Somerfield; A. W. Knepper.
Sherif —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 8S. 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—1J. F. Reiman,
William Brant and William W. Baker.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost;
clerk, C. L. Shaver.
Superintendent
Seibert.
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf.
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of Schools—D. W.
SAFE-GUARDING MARRIAGE.
“It is entirely .too easy for young
persons to get married. Secret mar-
riages ought to be forbidden. Many
unfortunate and unhappy marriages
could be prevented and much sorrow
and grief avoided if young people
would take their parents into their con-
fidence and let them know their in-
tentions before entering into marriage
alliance. The proclamation of the mar-
riage bans as practiced in the Catholic
church is a commendable custom. It
ought to be the law of the land that all
persons intended to be wedded should
be required to make their intentions
publicly known to their friends and
neighbors at least thirty days before
the ceremony is performed. The fre-
quency of divorce is lamented, and
there is a call for more stringent laws
on the subject. But in our opinion the
place to begin is at the fontal source of
married life. Let marriage be properly
guarded, and many divorces will be
prevented and much distress preclud-
ed,” says the Somerset Classis Visitor,
a paper published in the interest of the
Reformed church.
Tt.ere is much truth in the foregoing
remarks, also some inane rot.
That it is too easy for young folks to
get married, no reasonable person will
dispute. And one of the reasons that
it is too easy is because there is a very
large number of small-souled, insignifi-
cant preachers of little ability and less
conscience who are constantly on the
lookout for fees. They are willing to
marry any person from the youth in
knee pants and the lass is short skirts
to the old, tottering couple with a foot
or two in the grave and minds in the
dotage stage. To them it matters not
what the circumstances, conditions
and probable outcome of a proposed
wedding may be, so long as they get
the customary fee for “saying the
words.” :
It is a well-known fact that for years
there has existed a veritable “under-
ground railway” system leading from
Somerset county, Pa., to Cumberland,
Md., operated expressly for the con-
venience of youthful run-away couples
seeking. to get married, and managed
by a set of conscienceless vagabond
preachers who are out for the fees, re-
gardless of results. It is said upon
good authority that some of the prin-
cipal offenders in this respect have
even gone so far as to offer a rake-off
from their fees to news agents and
other trainmen to direct such couples
to those ministerial dens of infamy
where few questions are asked and all
couples are welcome.
These strictures are not aimed at the
many able, conscientious clergymen
who are in the ministry from honest
motives and a desire to do the greatest
possible good to humanity, but at the
charlatan, fee-grabbing class of mere
pretenders in the pulpit, the class
which is a disgrace to the profession
and a menace to society, and which,
we regret to say, is entirely too large.
We do not agree with the Classis
Visitor that secret marriages should
be forbidden, although in the great
majority of cases we can see no good
reason why a marriage should be per-
formed in strict secrecy. However, if
people of full age and understanding
prefer to be married secretly, it ought
to be their right to do so.
The proclamation of
the marriage
commencing January 11, 1909.
bans as practiced in the Catholic
church is a thing that we take no stock
in. Marriage is a civil contract and
ought to be a strictly personal affair,
safe-guarded, of course, by prudent
logan ristions. The church, in our
opinionyhas no right to meddle in the
properly personal affairs of its members,
and the’matter of getting married is,
or at least ought to be, a personal affair
for those of full age and sound mind,
when safe-guarded by proper legisla-
tion of the various commonwealths.
If the laws were so amended as to
take a sterner and firmer hold on mat-
ters matrimonial, and the church had
a good deal less to do with marriages,
we think it would be infinitely better
all around.
The Classis Visitor’s suggestion of a
law that would require all persons in-
tending to get married to make their
intentions publicly known to their
friends and neighbors at least 50 days
before the ceremony is to be perform-
ed, is such inane rot as to be unworthy
of the least consideration of any law-
making body.
Many a good match has been broken
off by the lying tongues of, neighbors.
We know of more than one instance
where a very good man and an equally
good woman were betrothed and after-
wards became estranged to one another
by the lying, slanderous tongues of
jealous and malicious neighbors.
Many proposed marriages which would
have been ideal ones if realized, have
been nipped in the bud by the neigh-
bors learning of them in advance.
A law that would compel the publi-
cation of your matrimonial intentions
to the neighbors, would furnish much
gossip for the sewing societies and
other character-ripping institutions,
but we do not see the need of such a
law. :
We do, however, need more stringent
laws to safe-guard marriage. On that’
we all agree. As most contracts made
by minors are null and void in law, we
can see no reason why a marriage con-
tract made by minors, without consent
of parents or guardian, should not also
be null and void. Furthermore, we
believe that we should have a law
making it a duty of constables to make
a return of all unlawful marriages,
and that all such offenders should be
compelled to suffer the same penalties
inflicted upon couples who live togeth-
er in open adultry. That would prac-
tically - wipe out youthful runaway
marriages. The law should also mete
out severe punishment to the clergy-
man or officer of the law who would
dare to perform an unlawful marriage.
It is true that the frequency of die
vorce is a lamentable matter, but not
nearly so lamentable as the many fool
marriages that yoke people together
for life who are not in the least adapted
to each other. It must be an awful
thing to be mismated, but it strikes us
that it must be much more awful for a
man and woman to coutinue to live to-
gether, quarrel, fight and raise child-
ren after they discover that they are
mismated, and hence not fit to con-
tinue the marital relations and rear a
family. How is it possible for such a
couple to develop their children into
good men and good women? It is in-
finitely better for society that such
couples be speedily divorced. The
matter of making it more difficult to
obtain divorces, is a matter that can be
easily overdone. But there is urgent
need of legislation making it more dif-
ficult for fools and children to get
married. Not, however, by publishing
matrimonial intentions to the neigh-
bors.
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.
List of Cases for Special Civil Court.
“A special term of court, for the {ital
of civil cases, will be held the week
The
following cases have been set for trial:
Coffroth & Ruppel vs. Dr. J. A.
Louther.
F. W. Beisecker vs. Dr. J. A. Louther.
Annie E. Stoke vs. Babcock Lumber
Company:
Lavina Koontz vs. B. & O. Railroad
Company.
C. M. R. Boyts vs. E. H. Reid.
C. M. R. Boyts vs. Connellsville &
Ursina Coal and Coke Company.
G. A. Dentzel vs. Island Park Asso-
ciation.
Demetrius Compton vs. Lee F. Hoff-
man.
Monumental - Automobile Company
vs. T. W. Gurley.
J. D. Mandevill, manager, vs. Josiah
Specht.
tig, Jr.
John L. Dunn vs. Justus Volk.
CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE?
Whiskeyites Said to be Making Ef-
forts to Have Bank Clerk Disecharg-
ed for Working for Local Option.
GRANTSVILLE, Mb., Dec. 7, 1908.
Mz. P. L. LivENGooDp, EpITor STAR.
De:r Sir: —We hear it noised about
that there has been put forth an effort
to have H. H. Baker discharged from
the services of the Grantsville bank,
and, it seems, all on account of the
stand he took against the “booze devil.”
Mr. Baker is an exemplary young man,
and this procedure, in my opinion,
would be an injustice to Mr. Baker and
an injury to the aforesaid bank, for,
suppose all those citizens who took the
same stand on Election day that Mr.
Baker took, ‘should withdraw their
money from the bank the day that
Baker is discharged.
We understand that some of the
short-sighted soreheads (noodleheads)
have drawn out their paltry pennies
since local option won out. Now, it is a
poor rule that does not work two ways.
If the directors and the president of
the bank should be influenced by the
booze element, which wants to act
smart, the other people might turn the
tables, and do their banking in another
place.
We know which side was in the ma-
jority on Election day. We did bank-
ing before there was a bank in Grants-
ville.
You ses the situation, and I hope
you may have something to say of the
injustice Mr. Baker’s enemies are seek-
ing to do him.
The foregoing letter is from an in-
telligent and reputable citizen of Gar-
rett county, and it shows how con-
temptibly small and revengeful some
people are. Things have indeed come
to a pretty pass when a man can’t vote
and work for the sentiments he be-
lieves in without being made the vie-
tim of persecution. But it shows to
what depths of infamy the defenders of
the liquor traffic will resort. Instead
of accepting graciously the will of the
majority of the voters, as all good
citizens should do, some of the rum-
soaked minious of mammon invariably
resort to persecution, personal violence
and the gratifying of their wrath by all
the various ways at their command.
And what for? . Merely to “get even,”
as they think, with these who have not
yet compromised with conscience or
sold their souls to the devil.
Personally we know nothing about
the alleged efforts to have Bank
Clerk Baker discharged, but if
such effort has been or is yet being
made, it is more than likely that those
who have been reaping financial profit
from the damnable, dirty liquor busi-
ness are at the bottom of it. But if they
succeed in bringing about the discharge
of Mr. Baker for no other reason than
that he voted and worked for local op-
tion, then, indeed, are the officers and
directors of the Grantsvilie bank made
of poorer material than we judge
them to be made of. The fact is that
we have thus far believed the officers
of the Grantsville bank to be men of
good principle and fairness, and we
shall believe nothing to the contrary,
unless forced to do so by their own ac-
tions, which we do not anticipate will
ever come to pass.
Henry Baker and Charles Younkin,
we have been told all along, did yeo-
man service for the Local Option cause
at the late Grantsville election, and for
that very thing they deserve and have
the respect and honor of all good men
who know them. The whiskeyites who
are condemning them for coming out
on the side of right, are doing a great
deal more against themselves and the
liquor traffic than they could possibly
do in any other way. They are only
helping to dig their own graves, as it
were, by their efforts at persecution.
But let them go ahead ; “let the galled
jades wince; let them howl till the
cows come home; let them rave, rant
and roar; let thé pernicious, pestifer-
ous, persimmon-pated pessimists pout
or persecute, just as they prefer, but
let them rest assured that all the
devilment they can now devise will
come back to haunt them in their
dying moments. And, furthermore,
the hand writing on the wall makes it
plain that the booze business must go,
and all the hordes of hell can’t stem
the on-rushing tide that has set in all
over the country to wipe out the
greatest curse of the age.
And all this shall come to pass be-
cause these sayings are true, even as
they are recorded in THE SoMERSET
CouNTy STAR, the 15th volume and 48th
number. The choir will now please
put away its peanuts and sing that
good old hymn—
We rebels yet are much alive,
W. B. Sembower vs. Samuel C. Fech- |
And much we yet rebel
Against the bar-room and the dive,
Those agencies of hell.
STRENUOUS “TEDDY.”
Colored Preacher Has Strange
Dream Coneerning Roosevelt.
A colored yreacher whose name Tr
STAR shall not disclose, recently ree
lated a strange dream he had concern.
ing President Roosevelt, and we’ll bet
$10.00 that “Squire” Samuel Lowry
wouldn’t be surprised if the dream
should happen to come true. The
dream, as related to a representative of
THE STAR, runs as follows:
“I done dremp, a few nights ago, dat
I died an’ went to heben. As I stood
jest inside de goldin gate, dar came a
‘rap, and Gawge Washington was
’nounced by St. Petah.
“ ‘Let him come up an sit on mah
right side,’ said de good Lawd, who wuz
sittin’ on de throne.
“Pretty soon dar wuz anothah rap:
an’ Abraham Linkun wuz ’nounced by
St. Petah.
“‘Let him sit on mah lef’ side,’ said
de Lawd.
“Den dere came a most terriblesome
knockin’ at de gate, an’ de angels all
done shuck ap’ trembled.
“St. Petah opened de gate kind o
keeful like, an’ den he turned roun’, he
did, an’ said to de Lawd in a kind ob
skeery way, ‘you’ll hab to git down
offen dat throne, Lawd, an’ give de
latest arrival yo’ seat—it’s Mistah
Roosevelt.’ ”
——
MORAL SUASION.
Moral suasion means coax me. “Coax
me,” says the blear-eyed toper, whose
family is destitute. “Yes, coax him,”
says the saloon-keeper. “You have no
right to prevent him from getting lig-
uor,” even though it send him to the
insane asylum or the poor house. “You
have no right to prevent him from
spending his own money as he pleases,”
even though his children starve in
consequence. “You have no right to
keep him from the saloon,” even
though he is becoming a vagrant and
a vagabond by frequenting them. By
so doing you interfere with his “per-
sonal liberty.” Professional licentious-
ness is what it js, and the sheep's
clothing embodied in the name, “per-
sonal liberty,” covers all of the liquor
wolf but the teeth and claws. When
the drunkard reaches a certain point
in his downward career, the saloon-
keeper turns him graciously over to
the moral suasionist who takes him
penniless, thriftless, coatless, and re-
forms him. When he has ceased to be
a “bum” and has become a man, when
sobriety and industry have clothed
him and furnished him with cash, the
saloon again takes hold of him, and
again lands him in the gutter, and over
and over this operation is repeated,
moral suasion taking those who are
too low for even the saloons and set-
ting them on their feet, only to have
them again cast down by their old foe,
the saloons. Is there any wonder the
saloon-keepers are in favor of “moral
suasion,” or that those who have
studied intemperance in all its phases
have no confidences in it as a permanent
remedy?
IF THIS IS TRUE.
What are the duties of the law-
making powers in national and state
governments as set forth in the organ-
ic law? They are: “We, the people
of the United States, in order to form
a more perfect union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense and promote
the general welfare.”
If this is true, then by what power
of logic or common sense can the na-
tonal, state or city governments li-
cense or even permit that which is
destructive of every principle of good
government? Does the saloon help
form a more perfect union? Does it
help establish justice or insure domes-
tic tranquility? Does it help to pro-
vide for the .common defence? Does
it help to promote the general wel-
fare? To all of these questions an
honest. public must say “No.” The
saloon is the creator of misery and
discontent; it is the hatchery of trea-
son, the breeder of law-breakers, the
destroyer of domestic tranquility. It
does not help promote the general
welfare, but it does destroy it.
MEDICINE THAT IS MEDICINE.
“I have suffered a good deal with
malaria and stomach complaints, but I
have now found a remedy that keeps
me well, and that remedy is Electric
Bitters; a medicine that is medicine
for stomach and liver troubles, and for
ran down conditions,” says W. (.
Kiestler, of Halliday, Ark. Electrio
Bitters purify and enrich the blood
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i 50c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store.
tone up the nerves, and impart vigor
and energy to the weak.™ Your money
will be refunded if it fails to help you.
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