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It is said that people are going to buy practical articles for Christmas presents.
In this way get real value in useful things for presents.” We have inlstock hundreds of
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articles that anyone would appreciate as gifts, as they are useful to 0 the ones whoreceive
them. We can only mention a very few of them.
CHRISTMAS
~~ (hristmas Handkerehiel Hin
Cambrie Linen Silk, Children’s, Ladies’ and
Men’s—35, 10, 15, 25, 35 & 50c. to $1.00.
Silver Novelties: ~ Shaving Mugs, Soap
Boxes, Toilet Sets, Ink Wells, Pomade J ars,
Spoons, Knives & Forks, from 50c. to $5.00.
: Japanese Hand-Decorated Ware.
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Plates, Cups and Saucers, Cream Pitchers,
Salt and Pepper Shakers, Cracker Jars, Vas-
es and other articles—50c. to $3.00.
Don’t delay, as the assortment is getting
smaller. Make your selections now.
+ Elk Lick Supply Co,
(General Merchants.
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SAVING!
If you were going to cross a desert which would re- a
require several days, you would provide necessary food
9 = and water before starting, to last until you reached the &
other side.
Is it not just as wise and important to pre- @»
pare for the deserts of life, such as sickness, ‘hard times”
9 @@ and old age by saving. Decide you are going to save,
NOW, then call and start an account with us.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SALISBURY,
14a Slippers................ 5 to 175
Gifts F or Men. Brooches .............. 25 to. 1.00
Umbrellas. 0... ...... . T5108 5 Belt Buckles........... 25 to: 1.00
Gloves... 0... : 25 Io 3 a» Neck Chains. .......... .76 to 2.50
. Handkerchiefs ......... 05 to 5 Belts ................:. 25 to 1.00
Neckwear... ... rie db: 2% to 1.00 Fancy Combs.......... 25 to 176
“ Suspenders (each pair.in E Umbrellas ......... ses + IB JO 500
box}... nT 50 to 5 Purses and Bags....... 25 to 3.50
Slippers:..o:i0.. inn 50 to 2.00 Minicure Sets.........: 50 to 2.00
# Shirts. .7........co0nens 50 to 200 JERE] 0as08 ; gen tre: ry 8109-300
Socks... Ni =n 10 to 50 Hand Mirrors.......... 25to 1.25
= Mufflers (silk). . 50 to 3.00 Dress Goods, per yard.. .25 to 1.75
é HAS. vvvnsreenrennes 100 to 300 Sills, per yard... 50 to, 150
< Shoes a aT 150 to 5.00 Purses. 0 0 1.00 to 15.00
: g Fancy Voste... . ..... 1254e. 850 Tailored Suits. ......... 10.00 to 30.00
¢ Watch Fobs./.. ...~ . 9 to 250 Coats. Sesevaithvessie. a. 3.00 to 25.00
Gaff Butténs. , 95te 100 Waists. . feet .76 to _ 6.00
SearfPins.............. 25 to 76 Dress SERS. 2avsbeen 2.25: 10-1200
Toilet Sets.............. 1.00 to 5.00 Rimonss-:.........rur 60 10. ,600
Military Brushes. ...... 75 to 38.00
1 Hat Brushes........... 25 to 125 Always Aeccep table. :
Coat Sweaters......... 50 to 3.50 Table Linen, per yard.. .25 to 1.50
,. Beits.................. 5.00 to 25.00 Napkins, per dozen. .... 1.00 to 4.00
Overtoats..... ........ 8.00 to 22.00 Table Linen Sets....... 8.00 to 10.00
- Rein Coats..... ....... 7.50 to 21.00 Comforts... .......... 1.00 to 2.00
. Suit Cases and Bags. ... 100 to 10.00 Blankets, per pair oa 60 to 5.50
: i Dresser Scarfs......... 50 to 3.00
Gifts For W omen. Towels, each........... 10 to 1.50
Quilts. ......0=......... 85 to 4.00
Handkerchiefs ......... 06 to 1.00 Bugs........ .....n.... 1.00 to 3.50
Gloves.......... ssseins. OB to 7325 Drnggets ..... 0... 5%. 7.00 to 25.00
Neckwear.............. 25 to 5.00 Portieres .-...........: 3.00 to 5.00
Stockings -............. 10 to 1.00 Linen Sheeting, per yard, 1.00
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; B<&=~0One-Fourth off on Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats, also
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big reduction on Ladies’ and Misses Suits. Considering
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. our fine line, this is an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.
3 We've printed only the prices of the least expensive and the most costly articles.
Lots of articles between. And this wouldn’t be the best kind of a store if we didn’t see
that you always get a little more actual value for your money expended here than is pos-
sible in any other store.
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Our stock of Perfumery has-re-’
ceived the endorsement of Santa
Claus. The entire stock bristles
with beautiful, pleasingly-prieed
“stocking fillers.” No woman
can have too much perfume; and
“captive: edor ==
of fields and flowers.”
most men like the
We have all the popular odors,
in bulk or bottles—bottles that
are in themselves most aecept-
the ehil-
dren’s 10c. bottles to those pleas-
ing creationsof cut glass in silk-
en-lined boxes.
“When in_ddubt,
‘bottle of perfume.”
GLOTTON
Gly Drug. Store, *“its,
306 MAIN ST., NEYERSDALE, PA.
able presents—from
give her a
The Cough Syrup that
rids the system of a cold
by acting ss wu cathartic on-the
bowels. ia
BEES
LAXATIVE
COUGH SYRUP
Bees is the original laxative cough rep,
contains no opiates, gently moves
bowels, carrying the cold off through the
satural wri Guaranteed to give
satisfaction or money refunded.
SOLD BY E. H. MILLER.
Erk Lick, Pa,
FOLEYSHONEY:~TAR
for children: czie, sures. Ne opiates
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To
Our Good Friend
The Farmer:
Before sending your money away on
Mail Orders suppose you just peruse
the ADVERTISING COLUMNS of
this paper for bargains. Of course if
you: don’t see ADVERTISED here what
you want you are quite likely to yield
to the temptation to buy through a
catalogye.
Some. of our local Merchants have
discovered that the best way to com-
bat Mail Order competition is to use
the chief ammunition of the Mail Or-
der people— ADVERTISING. No doubt
you compare notes as between Home
Advertisers and Foreign Advertisers—
the outsiders—and rrefer to trade at
home if you see what you want.
WANT COLUMN.
For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, Etc.
LOTS FOR SALE?—Three lots front-
‘ing on Ord street, opposite the school
heuse., Apply to M. H. Boucher, Mey-
-ersdalé; Pa. tf
i FOR SALE at a bargain!—As good
‘and handsome a Double-Barrel Ham-
'merless Shotgun as there is in Salis-
ibury ; 12 gauge, 80-inch barrels, guar-
anteed for smokeles powder, brand
new. Inquire at Star office. tf.
FOR SALE!—A Child’s Bed; large
enough for two; cost $6.00; will sell f.r
$3.00; in good condition. Inquire at
Star office. tf.
FOR SALE!—A few Somerset Coun-
ty Directories containing names and
addresses of all taxable inhabitants of
county in 1903; also contains township.
railroad and mineral map of county;
50c. each. Star office. tf
FOR SALE at a bargain!—A new
and handsome Stevens Ideal Rifle, 25-
20 caliber, brand new, 26-inch half
octagon barrel. Inquire at Star office.
tf.
WANTED !—Rents to collect, Deeds,
Mortgages, Pension Vouchers, ete, to
fill out:and attest. Satisfaction guar-
anteed.” P. L. L1vENGOOD,
tf Star Office.
Would Export Labor, Not Raw
Materials.
A western manufacturer has brought
out a new phase of the much discussed
movement for the conservation of
natural resources. In a letter to the
National Conservation Commission,
parts of which they have made public,
he points out that not only ought pru-
dence to be used in the consumption of
the country’s natural products, but
that the possibility of a double saving
lies in working up these raw materials
and exporting the manufactured ar-
ticles rather than the original iron or
wood or other unfinished products.
“Broadly stated,” he says, “the propo-
sition is this: When we were in new
country ‘and our industrial life was that
of .a:colony, it was quite feasible to ex-
port the riches that nature had treas-
ured up on this continent. Our peopu-
lation has increased enormously, and
we must aim to get into a position
'where we ean export labor instead of
products. Every child that is born in
the country brings two hands with it,
but its presence dods not add to the
stores of nature. When we export pe-
troleum, lumber, iron and other ma.
terials, we are taking something from
the wealth of the country. In export-
ing highly finished produets containing
quality labor, we are placing into the
foreign markets the labor of our people
that increases direotly with every in-
¢rease in population. I have heard
professors of politieal economy in Ger-
many say, ‘Let as buy our raw mate-
rials abroad and export them in a high-
ly finished state. We shall then gain
a double advantage, the one in that we
do not deplete our natural stores, and
the other in this, that then our people
will be able to rise to a higherstandard
of living, for those who do quality work
| are better paid.’ ’*
This idea is along the same line of
| vation have been
argument that the advocates of conser- |
presenting—that | proprietor.
waste consists not only in misuse of
natural resources, but just us much in
the failure to utilize to the fullest ex-
tent economically possible—but it rep-
resents another step in that line.
The man who makes the suggestion
is the treasurer of a big Indiana man-
ufacturing company, which has Leen
making threshing machinery and
engines for more than half a century.
His long business experience has given
him a first-band knowledge of the
progress of the manufacturing industry
in this country, and he has supplement-
ed this knowledge by observations
abroad.
“In our own business,” he says, “we
are feeling the dearth of lumber and
anxiously looking around for substi-
tutes that do not, however, furnish us
with what we need for our separators
and hullers. The increasing prices of
this material will hamper us, especially
in foreign competition.
“I wish that I could tell you in dollars
and cents what the floods of recent
years have cost us. One flood at Kan-
sas City, where we had a six-story
warehouse, cost usin actual cash $9,730,
not to speak of the loss of trade. This
year’s high water at that place did our
business damage amounting to prob-
ably more than $35,000 or $40,000. We
must have some regulation of the
waters of the country, so that elements
of uncertainty and loss will be elimi-
nated from business.
“But there is a further consideratien
that calls for the extension of navigable
waterways wherever that is feasible.
Thirty or forty years ago our raw ma-
terials were at our doors. Lumber
was cut two miles from our factory.
Now our lumber comes from Louisiana,
and some of it even from the Pacific
Coast. Our products used to be sold
in the immediate vicinity. Now, they
they go thousands of miles across the
continent, and the item of transporta-
tion has become an -important one in
the cost of our business. The time is
just coming when we can enter the
South American markets to advantage
and dislodge the European manufac-
turers who have commanded their
trade for the last fifty years. We can
do this if we get a waterway from
Chicago to the Gulf, and thence by the
Panama Canal into the Western half
of the South American continent. If
the Chicago to St. Louis big waterway
is built, the Central Western states in
‘the district around Chicago will be-
come the greatest manufacturing cen-
ter of the world, but to compete with
England and Germany, we must have
water freight rates.
“During six years’ residence in Ger-
many I saw how much is being done
there toward the preservation of for-
ests, and watched with keen interest
the effect of the canals that were built
by the Prussian government upon the
development of the industry of the
country. The rise in land values alone
would have paid the cost of digging
the canals, twice over. The effect of
making‘the Mississippi navigable to its
tributaries would be to bring all the
adjacent lund within touch of the
world’s markets. Farming would be
more profitable, and the value of
American lands would be enhanced.
“Water power as a source of energy
will have a determining influence upon
our national life in the future. Its
passing entirely out of public control
would cause much hardship during tre
generations to come.”
A PERSONAL APPEAL.
If we could talk to you personally
about the great merit of Foley’s Honey
and Tar, for coughs, colds and lung
trouble, you never could be induced to
experiment with unknown prepara-
tions that may contain’ some harmful
drugs. Foley’s Honey and Tar costs
you no more and has a record of forty
years of cures. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E.
H. Eiller, proprietor. 1-1
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Mr. Taft’s Great Popularity.
Tabulation of the popular vote for
President has been completed. Taft
polled 7.637,676 votes, and Bryan 6,393,
182. Taft's plurality oxer Bryan, there-
fore, was 1,244,494. The other eandidates
polled the following tetals: Debs
(Socialist), 449,651; Chafin (Prohibi-
tion), 241,252; Hisgen (Independence),
83,186; Watson (Populist), 33,871; Gil-
haus (Soc-Labor), 15421. Taft had a
popular majority exer all his apponents
of 423,113 in a total vote of 14,852,239. It
is therefore appareatthat Taft was the
favorite not only of a majority of the
states, which alone would have insured
h's election, but also of a mijofly of all
the individual voters of the country.
The fact that lhe ran a million and a
quarter votes ahead of his nearest eom-
petitor, Bryam, is added proof of the
widespread popularity of the Pres®
ident-eleet.
MRS. McRANEY’S EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. M. McRaney, Prentiss, Miss,
writes: “I was confined to my bed for
three months with kiduey ahd bladder
troable, 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
Kidney Remedy. After taking two
bottles I felt like a new person, and
feel it my duty to ted suffering women
what Foley’s Kidney Remedy did for
me”, Elk Lick Pharmacy, E, H. Miller,
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GOOD HOME RECIPE.
Home and Try it, Anyway.
Get from any prescription pharma-
cist the following:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce ; Compound Kargon, one ounce ;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
Shake well ina bottle and take a
teaspoonful dose after each meal and
at bedtime.
The above is considered as the most
certain prescription ever written to re-
lieve Backache, Kidney Trouble, Weak
Bladder and all forms of Urinary diffi-
culties. This mixture acts promptly
on the eliminative tissues of the Kid-
neys, enabling them to filter and strain
the uric acid and other waste matter
from the blood which causes Rheuma.
tism.
afflictions may not feel inclined to
place much confilence in this simple
mixture, yet those who have tried it
say the results gre simply surprising,
the relief being effected without the
slightest injury to the stomach or other
organs.
Mix some and give it a trial. It cer-
tainly comes highly recommended. It
is the prescription of an eminent au-
thority, whose entire” reputation, it is
said, was established by it.
A druggist here at home, when asked,
stated that he could either supply the
ingredients or mix the prescription for
our readers, also recommends it as
harmless.
Wood Still Principal Material Used
in Building Construction.
Great as the advance in fire-proof
construction has been during the last
ten years, there has been no let-up in
the use of lumber, and both architects
and builders find themselves so depend.
ent on wood today that they are com-
pelled to admit that the forests of the
country are likely to be the chief
source of building material for many
years tO come.
“The use of cement, terra cotta, brick
and stone, with a framework of steel
will make it possible soon to do away
with wood entirely,” is a remark often
heard, and, indeed, when one stands on
lower Broadway and looks up at the
towering skyscrapers, the statement
seems to contain much truth. As a
matter of fact, however, the popular
idea that fire-proof materials will do
away with the need of using lumber
in a comparatively few years is a very
erroneous one. All of the various fire-
proof materials going into the approv-
ed construction of the more substan-
tial building are used in greater quan-
tities now than the world dreamed of a
few years ago, yet the heavy demand
for lumber continues.
That wood predominates is shown by
the annual building records. Of the
permits used for buildings erected last
year, approximately 61 per cent. were
constructed of wood, and the remaining
39 per cent. of fire resisting material,
according to a report issued by the
Geological Survey on operations in
forty-nine leading cities of the country.
These figures are the most significant
when it is realized that they only rep-
resent the building activities in the
largest cities; they do not take into ac-
count the construction of dwellings,
stores and other buildings in the thou-
sands of small cities and towns scatter-
ed over and not included ’in the forty-
nine cities on which the reckoning is
made.
In towns and small cities wood is
usually the predominating building
material, and it is safe to say that if
all places of whatever size, the percent-
age of wooded construction would haye
been mueh greater. These figures, as
a rule, are only for the corporate limits,
and the suburbs of these cities have
each very large amounts to be added.
The cost, also, is relatively higher in
the cities than in towns nearer the
base of the supply.
Piead Guilty of Murder.
Shandor Foreas, of Windber, last
week plead guilty of murder when his
ease was called for trial, at Somerset,
Foreas struck Andy Bundy, also of
i Windber, with a clab, some months ago,
inflicting an injury from which Bundy
died in a short time. A grudge existed
between the two men, it is said, and:
Forcasts*said to- have walked up to.
Bundy and struck. him without thse.
slightest warning.
If all reports are true, the tragedy.
which eonstitutes murder in the First
degree. The Court has fixed upon Jan,
19th, 1909, as the day for the testimony
to be heard and the degree of murder
to be decided upon.
Good Advice from the Sage of the
Savages.
The sage of the Savages, otherwise
“known as J. B, Oder, aditor and pub-
lisher of the only ‘exelusively great
paper in Frostburg, M@., sagely hands
out the following to the readers of his
paper, in his issue of last week:
“Buy Christmas gifts, but not ex-
travagantly:
You may break, you may squander,
A ten if you will,
But the wish that you hadn't
| Vill hayg round you still.”
was deliberately planned and execubed, .
Mix This Simple, Helpful Recipe at .
Some persons who suffer with the -
the statistics had included figures for
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