£ RSET, PA. J. G.OGLE Ve T, PENN’A PON, LICK, PA. Ve “RSET, Pa, SET, PA. mith Ave. preserva- lal sets in- 3s L IONEER. ales, Live ate. N SCHOOL. ion guar- fg, PA. - -1 CE, 4 S OL CO. 4099 2 - , Mass. pi NT! ters, Ice te. s—Beef- ge, Hot t All ° wth. roceries, , ete. , and we of your . 1ERS, URY, Pa. ) 3 111d. , Mgr. igs of on to n, and T pic- ties. ed for, * all Pe A VOL. XIV. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1 7.1908. ® NO. 19. Appreciate —they certainly do—is a full page advertise- ment of bargains In a store near enough for - them to visit. In the big cities such pages ap- pear daily. Why? Be- cause the merchants know that the women appreciate it. They cer- ‘tainly do know it. All women are very appreciative in the mat- ter of shopping bar- . gains. They are so ap- preciative that they make mental note of the things they want, as ad- vertised, and make a bee line for the store that keeps those things on hand and lets them know about it. - If the merchants in the smaller cities and towns—this cone, for in- would. “She Certainly Will : y . 9 dion She Certainly Will. it Have you read “The Southern Maiden’s Reply 2” it { is a touching littie love poem by Mr. Charles Frederick ng the rounds. Under the magnolias ~ the youth is telling his love in language hot as lava from ¥ He speaks thoughts that breathe in words * that burn tothe extent-of about. thirty lines of verse. + “And this ie what the maiden sald— Mer worde were chelce and few: ‘l certainly do appreciate it; 1 certainly de.” One of the things that women certainly do appreciate stance—would do more of this kind of advertising, the women certainly would appreciate it; AND THE MERCHANTS CERTAINLY WOULD BE BENE- po FITED; THEY CERTAINLY WOULD. » It; they certainly Eacu yenr the poultry business is becoming more lucrative in the com- munity. The old hen is getting to be worth her weight in gold. Prusipext Rooseverr has said that he would father pardon a horse thief than a bank-wrecker, and so say we The horse thief is infinitely a bet- ter man than the bank-wrecker. ere eee Hasirs formed in youth—during the <4 period of schocl life—will influence and determine largely the entire life iof the individual aferwards. Habits of promptness, industry, work, courtesy — in fact everything touching the school life, will never be eradicated. Pupil, teacher, parent, lock well to this period of life. : Tue Pope recently blessed President- elect Taft and family. The Pope also blessed the Spanish arme during the Spanish-American war, while God sseems to.bave blessed the arms ard canse of the victorious Americans The Pope’s blessing ean do no harm, buat there is, at least, room for argu- -¢ment as to whether it can do any good. The Pope’s blessing without God’s blessing is unavailing. eet teen. Tur Washington Reporter applauds the movement to make women remove their hats in church, and the Connells- ville Courier says if there ever was a time when such a rule should prevail, it is right now. Right you are breth- ren, right you are. The hideous mil- linery creations worn on women’s heads, these days, have no business to be worn in the churches and theaters, ‘#nd they’re a devilish nuisance and an abomination when worn anywhere else. ee a LET a man or woman start on the downward road to ruin, and we are all | | the heathen? prone to step aside and cry out, “slide on, slide on to destruction.” Instead of stretching out the hand of brotherly love and staying their progress, we stand by and let them slide. He who can stoop down and lift up his fallen brother from the mire and place him on his feet and whisper sweet counsel in his ear and bid him go and lead a bet- ter life, is truly a benefactor to the r.ce. ProprLe who are charged with a good supply of bad whiskey will do things which they would shun as much in their sane moments as they would to put their hands into the burning fire. Men are transformed from respectable citizens into demons, and will comu: t depredafions that they will regret all their lives, and the disgrace of which will follow them as long as life lasts. Why will they so far lose -all self re- spect as to give themselves over to the demon of drink? rr AN Illinois editor retired from jour- nalism, and his “good-bye” is chron- icled in the following language: The undersigned retires from the paper with the conviction that all is vanity. From the hour his paper was started to the present time, he has been solic- ited to lie on every given subject, and can’t remember having told a whole- some truth without diminishing his subscription list or making an enemy. Under these circumstances of trial, and having a thorough contempt for himself, he retires in ordc: to recruit his moral constitution. Is it not about time to abandon the foolish and wasteful Christman tree habit? Hundreds of acres of young timber growth is destroyed &nnually in order to supply Christmas trees for the large cities. The time has come when the people of this country must begin to conserve their timber supply. On this subject a New York preacher recently made the following timely re- marks while delivering a sermon: “How came we to adopt this custom, which is one of the many taken from We are deforesting many portions of our state and country. We ought to save the trees to prevent flood and give shade. To do my share in the work I have forbidden the purchase of ever- green trees in this church for tle com- ing holidays.” the proper amount of | OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Below will be found the names of the various county and district officials. Unless otherwise indicated, their ad- dresses are Somerset, Pa. President Judge—Francis J. Kooser. Member ot Congress—A. F. Cooper, | Uniontown, Pa. State Senator—William C. Miller, Bedford, Pa. " Members of Assembly—J. W. Ends- ley, Somerfield; A. W. Knepper. Sheriff—William C. Begley. Prothonotary—Charles . C. Shafer. Register—Charles F. Cook. Recorder—John R. Boose. Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike. Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. District Attorney—John 8. Miller. Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friggline, Stoys- town. Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant- ner; Charles: F. Zimmerman” “Btoys- 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, Yionibition, ; tf. PARDONING CRIMINALS. There is more than a suspicion that a strong tendency exists, not only in this state, but elsewhere; toward a looseness and leniency in the matter of pardoning criminals. The maudlin sympathy expressed by women and by some men toward criminals, or those accused of some heinous crime, is usually considered as the manifestation of an abnormal sentiment ' which verges on hysteria, but there is an illogical and mistaken leniency toward criminals suffering long terms of imprisonment, expressed by men usually of well-balanced minds. A man who commits a cold-blooded murder and is sentenced to imprison- ment for life, should no: be pardoned. He may have a good record as a-pris- oner, he may even have honestly and sincerely repented of his crime, and it may be conceded, for the sake of ar- gument, that he would no longer be a menace to the community if allowed io go at large, but “the argument against his release is based upon grounds which are not. affected by these facts. The purpose of punishment for crime should never be for motives of revenge ; it should be based upor two grounds, and two only. the prevention of subse- quent criminal acts upon the part of the criminal himself and its deterrent effect upon others. Now, it does not require any labored argument to show that this effect in the latter instance is seriously weak- ened when a practice is made of par- doning criminals, and especially in the case of those serving g lifé sentence. A man who - commits cold-blooded murder, deliberately puts himself out- side the pale of human sympathy; he should not be treated with cruelty or unkindness, but he should expiate either by death or by life imprison- ment, release from which should be hopeless, the results of his erime. The strongest argument in our mind, in favor of capital punishment, exists in the fact that the frequent misuse of the pardoning power serves to minim- ize the dread of punishment on the part of the prospective criminal. Fearing not immediate death, even if discovered and convicted, and rely- ing upon the probability of pardon after a few years, he takes chances which he would be disinclined to take if he knew that life imprisonment in name, meant life imprisonment in re- ality. The enactment of a law to the effect that men convicted of murder in the first degree :hould not be pardoned under any circumstances, would be futile, since subsequent legislatures would be able to appeal it, but if pub- lic sentiment was sufficiently aroused and expressed with unhesitating firm- ness and clearness, weak-kneed exec- utives and careless legislative bodies would cease turning loose upon the community men who have been con- victed of the crime which only God can forgive, and of weakening the influence upon the criminal class, which is one of the chief purposes of punishment. MIDWINTER TERM BEGINS January 4,5 and 6. Send for catalogue. Tae TrI-STaATE Business COLLEGE, Cumberland, Md. GREATEST FOE OF MANKIND. The saloon is the greatest foe of mankind—the foe of morality, the foe of the domestic, social and civil peace of the city or town or community where it exists. There is nothing commendable about it. It is base in its nature and base in its fraits. It is the cruel, merciless, murderous, vil- lianous agency of thedevil to poison, polute, pervert afid damn the souls of men. There are no words in the lan- guage of men severe enough to stigma- tize it. It is the den of all viciousness, the hotbed of all crimes.” It is the re- sort of the criminal classes, the favorite home of the depraved. The drinking man turns away from the endearment of home and wife and children to spend his evenings and his spare hours with the vulgar crowd that hangs about the saleon. - “Drawn from the as- sociation that would be a benefit to his moral, mental, and social nature, the young man who has a taste for liquor or for the company of the saloon, goes there again and again, until he feels nowhere at home, except amid the fumes and the ribald songs of that bacchanalian resort. The effect upon bim is disastrous to his welfare. Few men ever recover from the damaging effect of a career in the saloon, and large proportions of the crime of our country germinates in the saloons Intoxicating drinks are the indispens- able stimulants of law-breakers. They incite men to their evil deeds. They urge the murderer on in his bloody work. THE CIGARETTE FIEND. Our readers will pardon us if we use a little slang in expressing our views of the victims of cigarettes. Say, you young kid, you’re a nice snipe with that cigarette under your nose, ain’t you? You’re the kind of a soft, plia- ble, flabby piece of a boy, all weakness and moral imbecility which the toughs take as apprentices and educate in the deep, dark mysteries of how to be bad. You are marked as a little fool by every decent man who sees you, and and every time you indulge in the foolish and hurtful habit, you are lessening your opportunity of being respectable. You waot to be smart, but if you go into a strange town your cigarette spots you as a little hoodlum, and you will have to do a lot of good things before you can convince any one that you are worth raising. It impairs your healt and ruins your reputation and makes a contemptible monkey out of what might be a respectable boy. Your decent relatives, if you have any, are ashamed of you. If you are far enough along in your habit, you glory in your shame and stick to it through pure cussedness. Nobody respects you, nobody ought to. You are the blossom that yields the fruit of idle- ness and shame; you are the sprout from which a worthless bum will grow in time. You ought to quit it, and you know that you ought, if you have sense enough. Why don’t you? First National Bank of Frostburg, Md., Still Leads All Competitors. The last statement of the condition of the First National Bank of Frost- burg, Md., which was issued recently, ‘shows that well-known banking insti- tution to be away in the lead of all other banks in its lccality, in the vol- ume of business transacted. It is the favorite banking place not only of the people of Frostburg and vicinity, but draws an immense volume of business from all the towns in the Georges Creek mining region, as well as from the people of Garrett county, Md., and Somerset County, Pa. : The First National Bank of Frost- burg, Md., is the bank that the Annans are connected with, and no more ener- getic and safe financiers ever resided in Allegany county, Md., than Daniel and Roberdean Annan, the latter named gentleman being the President of the aforesaid bank. With them are associated other men equally promi- nent as financiers and safe, conserva- tive business men, and these facts, with the best of banking facilities, make the First National Bank of Frost- burg one of the safest and strongest banks in the country. Besides, the courteous bearing of its officers, make it a favorite place for people to do their banking, and that is one of the reasons why-its patrons are always on the increase. 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. I 1-1 Third Officer, and about three weeks BOUND FOR THE PHILIPPINES. of Interesting Letter from Ralph Smith, Late of Salisbury. 8. 8. Asia, Near Honolulu. H. I. Mr. P. L. Livengood, Elk Lick, Pa. Dear Sir: —Having recently left my home in Philadelphia, I learned while there that you were still among the living, and, therefore, have decided to write to you. I am desirous of letting you and many of my other Salisbury friends know where I am, which I will endeavor to relate to the best of my limited ability. ~ Some time ago I left the firm I had been working for in-New York (I sup- pose you remember Peter A. Frasse & Co.) and returned to the sea again, where I expect to remain for the re- mainder of my days. Shortly after I left Frasse I made application to the U. 8. Naval Auxiliary Service for thé&* position of Quarter Master, and was accepted and ordered to the U. 8.8. Nero, where I remained until about a month ago. During that time I went before the board of U. 8. Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels and took - the examination for a Second Officer’s license. I passed, and at pres- ant hold a license as Fecond Officer of steam vessels of any tonnage, which permits me, in that capacity, to sail the waters of any ocean. I at once placed an application with the Naval Auxiliary Service for the position of ago I was appointed a Third Officer, and received orders to perform such duties aboard the U. 8. 8. Alexander, on the Pacific. On Nov. 17th I wae ordered to leave Philadelphia and proceed to San Francisco, Cal, and take passage on the S. 8. Asia, for Manila, P. I., where 1 am to join the Aléxander. I tried very hard to have a day or two in Salisbury before leaving, but could not get a stop-off privilege from the B. & O., and, of course, had to go straight through. I went via Wheel ing, W. Va, to Chicago, then over the Chicago & Northwestern, Union Pa- cific and Southern Pacific railroads to San Francisco, spending 54 days in a Pullman sleeper. I had a most enjoyable trip, and had two days to spend in “Frisco” before coming aboard this ship, which will take 28 days from “Frisco” to Manila. The total trip from Philadelphia is about 11,000 miles, aud I will make the trip in just 35 days, if all goes well At the present time the ship is not very far from Honolulu, H. I., where we will stop on the way. From there we go to Yokohama, Japan, then to Kobe, then Nogasaki, and {last stop will be Manila, on Dec. 22nd, where 1 will join'the Alexander. I will have to spend three years on this station, which is the China station, unless ordered to some other ship in the meantime. I at present wear one gold stripe on my coat, but expect to have three by the time I return to the United States, which will make me First Officer, and I think by attending to my duties I will have command of one of the ships by the time I am 30 years old. I am at present 24. I spent about two weeks at my home in Philadelphia before leaving for this station. I left the home folks all in the best of health. Well, Mr. Livengood, I rather think I have about exhausted myself for the present, so had better bring this to a close. I shall let you hear from me from time to time, if you desire, and shall be very pleased to hear from you at any time. We are having very rough weather at sea today, and all the cabin pas- sengers are down ahd out, except my- self. Therefore,I have the cabin to myself, as I don’t get seasick now-a- days. Hoping you will remember me to my friends in Salisbury (that is, if I have any) and that I shall have the pleasure of a letter from many of them, I beg to remain Very Respectfully Yours, Rave C. SMITH, Third Officer N. A. 8,, U. 8. 8S. Alexander. P. 8S. All letters addressed as above, and marked “In care of Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.,” will reach me. B.C. MRS. McRANEY’S EXPERIENCE. Mrs. M. McRaney, Prentiss, Miss.. writes: “I was confined to my bed for three months with kidney ahd bladder trouble, and was treated by two phy- sicians, but failed to get relief. No hu- man tongue can tell how I suffered, and I had given up hope of ever get- ting well until I began taking Foley’s Forest Fire Losses Run High in West Virginia. “The unprecedented destruction, this year, by forest fires in West Virginia, has called the attention of the people, as never before, to the necessity of better protection to woods and water~ sheds,” says Hu Maxwell, chairman of" the West Virginia Conservation Com-- mission. “The relationship betweens denued mountains and floods is better understood than formerly, and the- problem of a future timber supply has- ceased to be a quesztion for academic discussion. “Every one of the 55 counties had one or more fires, some being small and spreading through a few ‘woodlots only, others covering more than 50,0007 acres. The areas burned aggregated: 1,700,000 acres, approximately one-fifth. of the wooded area of the state. Tim- ber burned amounted to more than 943,500,000 feet, board measuse, ‘about: 8 per cent. of the entire estimated: standing timber, large and small, ima the state, or two-thirds of the outputs of all the saw-mills of West Virginia in 1907. “Money losses were heavy. The: value of timber burned was $2,993,500: There were losses in manufactured’ lumber, tanbark, building and other improvements amounting to $490,175.. This year there was an unusually heavy damage to undergrowth and soil, and this has been placed at one dollar an: acre for every acre burned, making a loss of $1,703,850 in the state. These losses total up to $5,087,825. The re-- ported expenditures by the state and. individuals for fire fighting form an in-- teresting contrast to the loss of more than $5,000000. The amount which. county treasuries and companies are: reported to have spent to suppress. fires, was only $646; individuals and. companies are reported to have spent. about $89,000. “The injury to the soil from fire was much more severe, this year,in West Virginia, than ever before, not alone because the burned area was larger than in any former years, but also for the reason that excessive dryness ex- posed the humus to a greater depth,. Ground fires have been unusual here- tofore in this state, but thisseasom they were common and widespread. Two human lives were lost in the fires. “The mountain people fought fires in the past, when they fought at all, by raking the leaves and sticks from a fire lane two or three feet wide and back firing. That method failed this- year. Fires crossed the lanes by burn— ing the humus beneath the surface, and then started up on the farther side. The fires burned so deeply in the humus that an unusual phenomenon was presented when a snow fall came- early in November. The snow appar- ently’ extinguished the fires, but ik went away quickly under the influence of a strong, dry wind, and the fires came up and out of the ground and were soon spreading again. I saw an interesting example of this. In the morning the snow in the woods was: two inches deep, and no firé was to be seen. Before sunset the snow was gone and the leaves were burning. “Large tracts of land on the high. mountains were denuded of soil dow to the rocks. Over much of the area where the Pottsville Conglomerate is the surface formation, there never was much mineral soil. Beds of moss, . lichen, leaves, and decaying wood formed a covering for the rocks which gave anchorage to the roots of the forest. trees. Over extensive tracts, soils of that kind were absolutely de--. stroyed.” : During Farmers’ Week. The Horticultural Department of the School of Agriculture at The Pennsyl- vania State College has secured a fine- exhibit of apples for instructional pur-- poses daring Farmers’ Week, Dec. 383 Jan. 6. Many counties in Pennsgl- vania and several other states are rep-- resented. Take a half dozen of your best round apples with you for coms parison. The Dairy Husbandry Department: will hold its regular bi-monthly butter-- scoring exhibit during Farmers’ Week. Creamery and farm butter-makers are not only invited to send butter, but also to be present, hear the judge, and. see the butter. Write the department for information and shipping directions. Program of all the lectures and other exercises may be had by dropping a. card to the School of Agriculture, State College, Pa. Plan to take the- wife, son, or daughter for a week’s va- cation, and meet others interested in the problems that interest you. There Kidney Remedy. After taking two bottles I felt like a new person, and 1-1 1. Miller, | were several hundred farmers there | last winter. feel it my duty to tell suffering women | what Foley’s Kidney Remedy did for | | me.”@ Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. I | proprietor. H& WEDDING Invitations at Tem | STAR office. A nice new stock just re- | ceived. . tf.
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