A. PA. _ @ —ongp ee of ot d C. § b § i i ' Sp seen i eee EAT RE | } Pe oc sR A Sips a Re, 7 AAR? ee 5 SHEMINI SOBOON EE ~ | AR eeSeeEIeTTRIIRGSUODOOBRTR EE 5 , goods ibex, and day after day pro- e os -bouse and eatables fram the pantry; X 3 viv i present time is the sin of idleness. This ar VOL. XIV. “SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1908. County Star, NO. 50. The Ancient 2 3 i Ever go to ‘a Sunday school picnic when you were a boy? Course you did. ; : Remember how "1 the womnen folks used to spread the . tablecloths ‘end to end on the grass, then dump ’em thick with the best eatables you ever: oh TOWN. \ er + ““Now:all help yourself!” ZEBATRBESBLBLOCBOVBBSEVIHOBVERBY Of Helping Yourseli. exactly. But it’s a picnic dinner:all the same. spreadifor'you. Everybody help himself now! SUPPOSE YOU'RE A ‘YWMERCHANT THERE'S FRIED CHICKEN AND ROLL NELLY CAKE ALL AROUND YOU, "THE {ITY CROWD COME RIGHT FROM UNDER YOUR NOSE. (GET t/¥8 THE BONES AND SCRAPS. » Thercity fellows are helpingithemselves. Jong fingers—the mail order monthly and the price catalogue —and pi¢k mp the choice bits. Why don’t you try a few fingers of advertising in your local paper, dive in ahead of the gang from outside, get there first and kelp yourself to the chicken? Art V ate? My! Fried chicken ’bout ‘every two foot, with roll ja cake in between. ell, yes! Recollezt how the Su- Juinteien t would stick is handkarchief under his . collar and say cheerfully: “Now all help your- self” Then everybody fell to ‘and helped gums If ou were a timid boy and ‘held back till all the chick- ‘en was gobbled up, you re- LOOBVVBHOBLBVBHEY | town, Robert Augustine, 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—Willlam 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. a Distriet Attorney—John 8. Miller. Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friedline, Stoys-' { Cummissioners—Josiah 8pechr, Kent: wer; Charles F. Zimmerman Stoys- Somerfield. Bdlicitors—Berkey & Shaver. Jury Commissioners—George J. iI'8dhrock, Joseph B. Miller. ‘Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman, ‘William Brant and William W. Baker. -gretted it—you regret it -gtill. i didn’t help ourself, and nobody else elped you. ‘Remember that picnic when the gang of fellows from the city happened along and lit into the fried fowl? City chaps are al ways hungry. ey help- wed themselves, and there waen’t anything left fer tthe town boys but the "bones. Life is a picnic. Nota Sunday school picnic—umot he feast ds ESE AGS EHO IN THIS BUT YOU LET IN AND SNATCH IT ALL YOU They reach «out MORAL: OUR ADVERTISING RATES FUR- SBHHBSHSHT HHO LIS DONGEE 8 PD) 2 SHEET RRRSSRIBILED 1 NISHED:!.ON APPLICATION. BEE < You can’t expect a woman to get much enjoyment out of the church ser- | vice @f-fhere are at least three women on her rewv~who are wearing more expen- sive hats dhan her own. Ee ee _“Tmmas-are had,” to be sure, but what’s thease of climbing up on a dry claiwing torithe world this, old, thread- bare, stereotyped assertion? We some- | times think that: times ought to be still more siringent.with some of these fel- _ lows. Midiit ever occur to gou that the genuine (hustler rarely, if .ever, com- plains efihard times? ear AN exehange-says that aleohol will remove grass -steins from summer clothes. Whe .exghange is right. It will also ramove spmmer clothes and also spring.and.winter.clotheg, net, only from the man .who dzinks it, but also from his wife.and.children. It will re- ‘move household fuanitpre from the ithe smiles fram the face of his wie, ;and the happimess from this home. As A remover of tiyings, alcohol has few: £guals. ~ Bg natural. Re mot try fo impress pegple with your importance. If you axe really important, they will find it out. Af you are of ne aeeount, you will "not gdeeeive anyone by aeting asthough great iisterests rested in your keeping. The day of pomposity is past, we hope pever to return. More people than ever before are intelligent and able to judge those with whom they come in contact. This means that they are able to judge you and place a true, rather than a false estimate on your abilities. iS eR Oxe of the fashionable sins of the may not apply to the *elub ladies” of our town, buf this evil exists to an alarming extent, especially go in larger cities, where competent ladies flit away * time ag if there were no claims upon them in the busy marts of life. There are | persons whom the stress of circumstan- ces compels to work, but the work is too often done under protest. There is a grewing distaste for housekeeping. While all honest laber is ‘honorable, there is nothing more so than ithe .care of the home. Teneold man may not reeall ail the experiences, all the struggles and triumphs of his early manhood, ‘but every faature of his childhood theme. every little playhouse that he helped his sistertobuild, is a photograph .on his heart’s tablets, and can never fade away. Rerhaps the golden light of eternity wiil.not dim the brightness of that picture. \What else the heart may forget, it eannot forget the place of its! birth, it eannot: forget the little broken cart, the sled.and the kite, the sister's! fond earess, theibrother’s generous aid, the father’s caunsel, the mother’s anx-! ious prayers. reece TL IF you have mnade up your mind to | live in a town, thea stand up for it, and if you know positixely no good of it, then silence is golden. Do all you can to help along every man who is engag- j-ed in legitimate business. Do not send {away for everything mice you want, and still expect the home,men to keep a stock to suit the whim of one or two cugatomers. The sueeess of your fellow townsmen will be your swecess. No man liveth to himself, and no man does business independently of his fellow business men. Take your home paper. Do not imagine the big dailies fill up all this space. There are many little crevices of good cheer, social sun- shine, personal mention, in the heme paper that the big dailies do not print. Then do net abuse your neighbor. The main difference in the number of his faults and your own is that you see through a magnifying glass as a eritiec. The ill-omened, the eroaker, can do a town more harm in a minute than two | good citizens can repair in a month. ela OLD PAPERS for sale at THE ran 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 | tor of the Journal called me Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost; clerk, C. L. Shaver. Superintendent of Schools—. W. Seibert. Chairmen Political Organizations— Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B. Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin, Prohibition. tf. WHO IS THE LIAR? Common Decency and Justice De- mand an Explanation from the Garrett Journal. Editors “Pete” Livengoed, of THE SoMERSET STAR, and “Benwié” Sincell, of the Oakland Republican, are fighting the late campaiga over, antl are losing much of their needed rest and recu- peratioa in am effort to have'this paper divalge the names of its :ante-election Republican correspondents, who pour- ed some very warm shotiinto Taft, his religious views and other policies advo- cated by that party during the late campeign. Jest pessess:your souls in patience, gentiemen, wéire not quite ready to divulge the names of our cor- respondents for your gratification, but smoke of battle had cleared away to make sueh demands wecan hardly uo- derstand. | may cease tolose your rest and equi- librimm on ascount.of our correspond- ents, whosemames are wi:hheld from publication same as yours.—Garrett Journal. For the enlightenment of our esteem- ed Qakland contemporary and the gea- eral publie, especially the enlighten- meat of thet portion wf the general public residing in Gansett county, Md, Tue Star will make a statement of a case in’ whieh eommen decency, fair= ness and justice demead an explana- tion from the Journal. [Ifiit is as un- manly to aet « lie as tedell one (and it undoubtedly is) them the Journal should immediately pursue a different course than the one it is mow, pursuing. Ordinarily Tme Svar does not care a straw who your eorrespendents are, but when it is a plain ease that some- body is lying in sueh a .eentemptible way and manner as to place unjust suspicion or slander upon same inno- cent person, no self-respeeting news- paper will allow its eolumus er its rep- utation to be used for sueh purposes, but will do all in its power te guard against injustice being brought to any innocent citizen, be he ever so hamble. During the late political eampaign there appeared in the columns of the Joprpal a most scathing arraignment against President-elect Taft, in which he was accused of being an infidel, ete.! | The article referred to was dated at! Grantsyille and signed “A Republiean.” | The article may or may not have been | written :by a Republican, and “Tar Star, like many others who read the artiele, is of the opinion that it was written by .a well known Grantsville Demoerat for the sole purpose of mak- ing votes for Bryan through and by fraud snd deceit. THE Star said so shortly after the article referred to made its appearance in the Journal, and immediately thereafter a certain Grantsville Democrat seemed to be very nervous, shortly after the elec- tion, the Democrat we have referred to was in Salisbury, where he met the editor of Tue Stag, to whom he spoke as follows: “Say, Pete, who iz that Grantsville Democrat. you accuse of writing the article that appeared in the Oakland Journal concerning Taft and his re- ligion?” The editor said in reply, “I suppose you know who he is,” to which the Grantsville Democrat made answer, saying: “Yes, I know who wrote the article, but it was not written by a Democrat. It was written by a Re- publican, L. F. Green, a member of the Legislature. I was in Oakland one | day during the campaign, and the edi- | into his | why you should have waited until the! «ur sincerethope is that you | office and showed me the article in question. He asked me what I thought of that as a campaign document. I told him that was a good one, and I was then shown Green’s name signed to the article.” Now then, if our informant told the truth, then the editor of the Journal, who Kicks on devulging the names of his ¢otréspondents, has been guilty of that very thing, betraying one who confided in him. ’ We referred to the foregoing con- versation in a recent issue of THE S8rar which immediately brought forth the following letter from Mr. Green, the same being published in the Oak- land Republican in its issue of Dec. 10th, 1908. ps : To the Editor of The Republican: The charge of the SOMERSET STAR ac- cusing me of being the author of the pre-election articles eoncerning Presi- dent-elect Taft’s religion is nothing less than a political scheme of some of my enemies, and I challenge them to produce the articles over my signature. * L. F. GREEN. Selbysport, Md., Dec. 5, 1808. Mr. Green’s denial is very positive, but he is in error when he speaks of the charges against him being made by Tre Star. This paper has charged him with nothing, but merely made mention of the charge laid at his door by a Grantsville Democrat. The whole situation summed up is as follows: If the Grantsville man’s statement to the editor of THE Star was true, then Mr. Green must neces- sarily be a liar, and the editor of the Oakland Journal a Judas and a double- dealer. But if Mr. Green’s statement is true, then our Grantsville informant is a liar, and a defamer of both Mr. Green and the editor of the Journal. It is now up to the Journal to expose the liar in order that the irocent per- son or persons, whoever the or they may be, may mo longer be accused of damaging things he or they are mot; guilty of. ! Thus far Ture STAR has not divulged the name of its informant, but we stand. ready to make public the name at any’ time the Journal is willing te say whether Mr. ‘Green is innocesit or guilty as accused, god whether the editor of the Journdlds guilty or fdnno- cent of having exposed to our Grants- ville informant the mame of a cowffiding | correspondent. A thoneugh expesure is abselutely. | necessary under ‘the existing etrcum- stances, and bence justifiable, tbecause it is the only way tosave someinmocent person or persons fram the dire affects of the meanest kind of misrqpresenta- tion. | “Tus Sra is net fighting the late campaign ewer, ner is it losing any needed rest, as stated by the Jeuwrnal, Tue Srar did not strain its -eonseience nor work overtime during the <cam- paiga to make votes dor its party by resorting to relegious persection and demagqguery, as the Bryan papers did, hence is not in weed of a rest. We are simply demandinz justiee and fair play to whom it is due. Stand up, Mr. Journal msn, and teil the public who the liar is—whether the liar is Mr. Green or his Grants- ville accuser, and don’t lose sight of the fact that if the Grantsville man tells the truth, you must stand as a Judas and betrayer of those who coan- fide in you. We do not care perticu- larly to know who wrote the attacks in your paper upon Mr. Taft, but if Mr. Green is not the guilty man, it is no credit to you to help keep him under suspicion by refusing to either confirm or deny that he is guilty as charged. If he is not guilty, be man enough to say so. And if he is guilty, be man enough to say so, in order that no one may accuse our Grantsville informant, your professing confidential friend, of being a base liar. Therefore, Who is tho liar? Common decency and justice demand that you answer. Will you do it? Dare you do it? MARKED FOR DEATH. “Three years ago I was marked for death. A grave-yard cough was tear- ing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to help me, and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King’s New Dis- covery,” says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of Bac, Ky. “The first dose helped me and improvement kept on until I had gained 58 pounds in weight and health was fully restored.” This medicine holds the world’s healing record for coughs and colds and lung and throat diseases. It prevents pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bot- tle free. 1-1 mre mand MIDWINTER TERM BEGINS January 4,5 and 6. Send for catalogue. TrE Tr1-STATE BUsiNEss COLLEGE, Cumberland, Md. | TROLLEY MATTERS. New Schedule on P. & M. Went Into Effect on. Monday. Difficulties Be- tween the Somerset Street Ry. Co. and the P. & M. Likely to. be Com- promised. A new schedule went into effect on the P. & M, Street Ry. Co., Monday last, and the new arrangement seems to give general satisfaction. Under the new arrangement, cars will leave Salisbury, Meyersdale and Garrett as follows: Leave Salisbury—5:45, 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00 a. m., and 1:15, 3:15, 4:30, 6:00, 7:15, 8:25 and 10:15 p. mi. Leave North 8t., Meyersdale, for Salisbury—6:25, 8:25 and 10:25 a. m,, and 12:25, 2:40, 3:55, 5:15, 6:40, 7:55, 9:45 and 11:35 p. m. Leave North St., Meyersdale, for Garrett—6:15, 7:30, 9:30-and 11:30 a. m., and 1:45, 3:45, 5.00, 6:30, 7:45, 8:55 and 10:45 p. m. x Leave Garrett—6:45, 8:00, 10:00 and 12:00 a. m., and 2:15, 3:30, 4:40, 6:15, 7:80, 9:20 and 11:10 p. m. The difficulties over entering the town of Somerset, between tho Somer- set Street Railway Company and the P. & M.,, are likely to be compromised in the near future, and the general public hopes for a speedy and satisfac- tory settlement of all differences, in order that all the principal towns of the couuty may be connected by trolley at the earliest possible date, The people of Somerset are en- thusiastic for the trolley, and they do not care a straw who builds it, pro- ‘viding it gives them trolley connection with Rockwood. It iseven stated upon good authority that the Somerset Street Railway Company will not build a line from Somerset to Rockwook if the P. & | M. will agree te ‘enter Somerset by way of Rockwood, instead of coming] 'by way of Berlin. The Somerset peo-| ple contend that the Rockwood route would give tee 'P. & M. a far eas¥er graid than to 'build to Somerset via Berlin, and = route, too, that would be much more free from snow blockades. They argue further that a line between Rockwood and Somerset would warry more¢ peogle in one month than =a line between ‘Garrett, Berlin and Somerset would carry in six months, and they will not'believe anything else. There- fore, it will be a hard matter, it ap- pears, for any company to get a fran- chise tofouild a trolley line into Som- erset that is not to connect the sounty- seat with Rockwood, the railread cen- ter of the county. Tn regard to the latest phase of the trolley tangle at Somerset, a newspaper corregpondent of that town 'has sent out the following information “Somerset trolley circles have been much tangled for several weeks, but there awe now indications that work will be eommenced next spring on the road to @onnect Somerset and Johns- town via Paint Creek. The Somerset Street ‘Railway Company, some time ago, was granted a franchise of the principal streets of the town by the Borough Ceuneil. Later the Pennsyl- vania and Maryland Street Railway Company applied for a franchise, con- tending that i¢ should have the privi- lege of laying tracks in the town, for the reason that the P. & M. would offer mach better facilities by giving Somer- set a line to Meyersdale and Salisbury by way of Berlin, while the Somerset concern would merely connect Somer- set and Rockwood. “The rival companies have been wrangling for months, and a veritable trolley war resulted, the Town Council refusing to grant a franchise to the Pennsylvania & Maryland. As the mat- ter now stands, it is assured that Somerset will be on the trolley map, because if one company fails, the other will unquestionably take its place. “A novel proposition has been sub- mitted by the Pennsylvania and Mary- land, and is now being considered by the Somerset Company. No agreement has yet been reached, but it is likely that some action will be taken within a few days, as the Somerset concern, although holding a franchise for the streets of the town, cannot get a char- ter because the Pennsylvania & Mary- land’s charter covers tha route propos- ed. “One company under the present status is a barrier to the other, and the proposition submitted by the P. & M. is intended to govern the construe- tion of a street railway between the Pittsburg, Westmoreland & Somerset railroad station and Edgewood Grove, which is to be completed as soon as practicable. “If the companies cannot agree upon specifications for a road for joint use each company shall appoint a civil en- gineer, and the two may select a third. After completion of the tracks, power shall be furnished by the Pennsylvania & Maryland Company, and the railway ties, ete., shall be maintained by the Somerset company. The P. & M. shall have the right to fix its schedules to regular hour and half-hour intervals, and the Somerset company shall ac- commodate its schedule, giving ample margin of time to free passage of cars of the former company. If the P. & M. inereases the number of runs upon the railway in joint use, then adjust- ment shall be made of the schedules of both companies, having due regard to the conveniences and necessities of each.” = THIS 18 WORTH READING. Leo F. Zelinski, of 88 Gibson S8t., Buffalo, N. Y., says: “Icured 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. 25c. 1-1 THE PRINCE OF PEACE. All the old troublous questions of the origin and destination of the Galilee Carpenter have passed. All the med- ieval worriment in discriminating be- tween human and divine has gone. All the puzzled inquiry into the miracu- lous. No longer is mankind stirred over the nonessential. Theories of Him fade away, dogmas on. His nature lose their charm. His gentleness has conquered. His influenée continues and widens. Slowly brightening, the gleam that touched Him spreads through the world. His spirit moves on the face of civilation, and makes it kinder every generation. Nurse, phy- sician, and nun are the messengers of His teaching. The vestal fires burned out, but never the fires of His spirit, which answer each other from moun- tain-top to mountain-top across the continents. And deep in the heart of" the people they make family life sweet- er and ease the bitterness of failure and ignorance and all life’s incomplete- ness. That wonder-working person- ality was never so potent as to-day—so insistent and tenderly sure. Under a thousand forms, creeds, and names, men serve Him. And however far we go in the conquest of nature, identify- ing the North Pole, climbing the sky, prying open electrical forces, mapping out the subliminal diminishing sin, disease, war, poverty, ignoranee—al- ways in the advance will be that gra- cious figure of the Sinless One, who showed love as the rule of life. One Perfeot Man—ardent and gentle—the race will never tire of Him.—Editorial in Collier’s for December 12. 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 HABITUAL LAWBREAKER. What is license as a temperance mea- sure? It does not prevent drunkards from obtaining liquor. It does not prevent boys from becoming drunkards. It does not close the saloons on Sunday or at night, as a rule. Spasmodically and by the most desperate efforts they are closed, only to be opened again as soon as quiet is restored. It does not prevent pauperism, crime and murder. On the contrary, these go right on in undiminished measure. It does not hedge up the way by which our youth enter on a career of debauchery. It may possibly diminish the low, repul- sive dives, but provides for the gilded, alluring deathtrap through which the unwary are seduced to their ruin. You know that the traffic is an habitual lawbreaker, that it regards neither God nor man, that the good of a com- munity, the elevation of society, form no part of its plan. That utter selfish- ness and lust for gain are its sole mov- ing impulse. The purpose of all legis- lation should be its utter overthrow and destruction, and not a participa- tion in its gains. THE BLANKS WE KEEP, the former just north and the latter a mile south of the town of Somerset, | which is to be used jointly by the op- | posing companies. It provides that the | specifications for the building of the | road be prepared as soon as possible, | and the construction of the same let | to the lowest bidder, each company to bear one-half of the cost thereof, | The following blanks canbe obtained at all times at THE Star office: Leases, Mortgages, Deeds, Judgment Bonds, Common Bonds, Judgment Notes, Re- ceipt Books, Landlord s Notice to Ten- ants, Constable Sale Blanks, Summons Execution for Debt, Notice of Claims for Collection, Commitments, Subpoe- nas, Criminal Warrants, ete. tf RN kata Se LC aS PE RR RR eR
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