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“Heres re
Last Thursday evening John Echard,
who was wanted in connection with
the alleged attempt fo bribe a juror in
the celebrated Rinehart case, was ar-
rested in Pittsburg. He was unable to |
give bond for $2,500, the amount re-
quired, and as a result is now in jail.
Officers were looking for Echard for
several weeks before they succeeded
in eapturing him. If found guilty, he
tentiary equal to that of Rinehart.
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2 EIGHTY -FIVE petitions have been
filed for license to sell liquor in Somer-
of Somerset county, Judge Kouser
should turn down every one of them,
and he knows it just as well as he
knows his own name. Will he turn
them down? His conscience would no
doubt permit him to do so, and we
think his wishbone would, but we hard-
1y think his backbone is strong enough
to stand for so great an amount of good
all at once. But, as the great paper
over at Frostburg womld say, we hope
for the best. Among the applicants
are many whole-souled, genial, kind-
hearted fellows—men who are good
in many respests, but that man never
judgment as to be able to dispense
liquid damnation to his fellow men as
a beverage without doing incalculable
harm to them and to their wives and
it!
tee etl ee.
Dr. A. O. BARCLAY, of Somerset, who
was arrested several weeks ago on the
very serious charge of having commit-
ted an abortion, has jumped his bail
and fled to parts unknown, according
murderous doctors who have been erim-
inally responsible for the death of moth-
ers and unborn babes, they have thus
far escaped punishment. Some of them
have been tried and found guilty, but
they have in no case had to suffer the
penalty for their crimes. Through the
connivance of spineless judges and
scheming, rascally lawyers, they were
turned loose upon the public to ply
their hideous and damnable crimes
again when it-may suit their gruesome
pleasure or their greed for gold. And
the unpunished vagabond doctors
found guilty of the awful crime of
abortion continue to go about among
respectable people, without so much as
a blush of shame upon their hardened,
criminal countenances. Yet, red-hand-
ed; as it were, with the mark of Cain
set upon them and the blood of their
innocent victims crying aloud to heav-
en against them, they have the brazen-
faced impudence and audacity to mix
with people who should consider them
beneath the notice of all decent men
and women, and who should ostracise
and pillory such red-handed; brazen-
faced, eriminal trash to the end of their
criminal, worthless lives. People de-
plore lynch law, but is there any won-
der that Jynchings are frequent? When
red-handed abortionists are turned
loose without punishment after they
are convicted, then there should be a
general lynching, not only of the erim-
-inals so turned loose, but also of all
who aided them in escaping unscathed,
WHEN a. too pointed publicity is di-
rected to an eyvil-or impure thing, it
has always been-the case, and so yet
remains, that the promoters of them
become aversed to the source originat-
ing that light-giving feature, and de-
nounce it bitterly. They bombast and
to news items which appeared in last
week’s Somerset papers. Every effort
should be made to capture him, and if |
his guilt can be established, of which |
there seems to be no doubt, he should
be made to suffer the extreme penalty
of the law.
of the abortion business going on in
Somerset county for many years, and,
luckily for the red-handed villainous,
There has been too much |
| lambast in every conceivable way the
| hand that directed “the writing on the
wall.” When a newspaper decries the
evil of the saloon traffic, the rum-seller
| curses and abuses the paper. When
the paper denounces the tin-horn
gambler, and censures his nefarious
the paper depicts and “shows up” the
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—W. H. Floto,
Meyersdale; A. W. Knepper.
Sheriff —Charles H. Weimer.
Prothonotary—J. B. Gerhard.
Register—Bert F. Landis.
Recorder—Norman E. Berkey.
Clerk of Courts—F. A. Harah.
Treasurer—Russell G. Walker.
District Attorney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. H. 8. Kimmell.
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Rush 8. McMillen, Rockwood ;
Hiram P. Hay, Berlin. Solicitor—
Charles W. Walker.
Jury Commissioners—George J.
Schrock, M. L. Weighley, Jenners.
Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman,
William W..Baker, J. C. Dietz, Listie.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost.
Superintendent of Schools—D. W.
Seibert. ;
County Auditors—Jacob 8. Miller,
Friedens; W. H. H. Banker and Samuel
A. Kretchman, Rockwood.
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Républican ; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf.
vicious tendericies of those institutions
and contraptions that portend or sug-
gest obnoxious practices, the operators
of same open up their vitupurative
“mud mortars, and call the paper and
its staff fools, idiots, butters-in and all
sorts of unapproachable epithets, and
then from out among the rabble, comes
the incoherent cheers of similarly dis-
posed individuals, who make bad mat-
ters worse Ly pulling the trigger of a
gun a fool would have known was load-
ed, and sticking a finger in a fire any
idiot would have seen was hot. Above
the smoke and ashes of it all, however,
there has always been noticed this
great fact. Yhese fellows never offer you
anything to commend themselves or
their institutions. They have nothing
to say in praise of them. If you say
stealing is outlawry, they call you liar;
if you say murder i§ a crime, the erim-
inal calls you a fool; if you say gamb-
ling is bad, and that gambling houses
‘have no place in a civilized community,
the gambler tells you to shut up and
quit “buttin’ in.” If you condemn
licentious novels and dramas begotten
from them, the novel fiend, and drama
promoter snaps at you with gnashing
teeth, and growls out that you have
“no right to meddle with other people’s
affairs,” overlooking in narrow-minded
selfishness that a newspaper is as any
moral-fostering citizen a part and
parcel of the whole community, and
that which threatens and shames the
dignity of the civic fabric, is as much
the concern of the paper as it is of any
citizen. On all great reform waves
you will find people alligned with the
interests on both sides, and the moral
status of the adherents of each is easily
discernable by the cause to which they
attach themselves. A newspaper’s
errand is to commend the good and
condemn the bad in all things that
come before its notice. —Ex.
THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE.
A French scientist has discovered
one secret of long life. His method
deals with the blood. But long ago
millions of Americans had proved Elec-
tric Bitters prolonged life and makes it
worth living. It purifies, enriches and
vitalizes the blood, rebuilds wasted
nerve cells, imparts life and tone to the
entire system. It’s ajgodsend to weak,
sick and debilitated people. “Kidney
trouble had blighted my life for
months,” writes W. M. Sherman, of
Cushing, Me., “but Electric Bitters
cured me entirely.” Only 20c. at Elk
Lick Pharmacy. 3-1
a ee
Sure Cure For Baldness.
An eminent French physician posi-
tively asserts that the following simple
remedy will cure baldness of any kind :
Take of croton oil twelve drops, oil of
almonds four troy drams; mix well
and rub a little into the scalp twice a
day. A soft fur down will appear in
three weeks and continue to grow.—
The March New Idea Woman’s Maga-
zine. Se
REVOLTS AT COLD STEEL.
“Your only hope,” said three doctors
to Mrs. M. E. Fisher, Detroit, Mich.,
suffering from severe rectal trouble,
lies in an operation, ” “then I used Dr.
King’s New Life Pills,” she writes, “till
| vocation, the gambler, with his coterie
| of selflike adherents, becomes loud and
angry in his abuse of the editor.
When | 25¢. a
r cured.” They prevent Appen-
| world, ie “rich beyond ‘the dreams of
IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?
The above question is one that is
very frequently asked and variously
answered. It all depends on circum-
stances whether marriage is a ‘failure
or not. For a man and wife to be mis-
mated must be a calamity to both, a
hell upon earth, and, necessarily, a fail-
ur. Bot on the other hand, when a
man and wife are naturally adapted to
one another, when they are striving to
make each other happy, when they are
companions, partners and helpmates to
each other in evety sense of the word,
and especially when they are blessed
with interesting and healthy children,
then marriage is a success, a pleasure,
a glad, sweet song.
True itis that advérsity and misfor-
tune may overtake any couple, but it
must be remembered that such mis-
fortunes . overtake the -anmarried as
well sis the married, and the poet has
well said: 3
“Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”
The man who has a good wife, even
though he may not have a dollar in the
avarice;” for not all wealth can be
measured by dollars and cents, by
houses and lands. And the same can
be said of the woman who has a good
husband. When marriage is a failure
it is because the contracting parties are
failures, or at least because they failed
to find the affinity of their souls. In
some cases they deserve pity, in other
cases only censure.
Next Sunday, if the editor and wife
live until that day, they will round out
their first score years of married life,
and we wish to be counted among those
who regard marriage as a success, a
delight, a supreme pleasure. Of course,
we have had our sorrows, our cares and
our worries; but who has not? But
we have had no family ructions, no
serious disagreements, and not a single
break of the affection that should al-
ways exist between man and wife. We
are thoroughly satisfied with each
other, and we hope to so continue to the
end of life’s journey. And, in conelu-
sion, the editor wishes to pay the high-
est possible tribute to every good wife
by declaring his honest convictions to
the world that no husband, ro matter
how good he may be, is not, and cannot
be, the equal of a good wife and mother.
We are told in Holy Writ that God
created man a little lower than the
angels, and somehow we believe that He
created good women at least as high, if
not higher than the angels. A good
wife is a radiant gem, a priceless jewel
and the most valuable of all earth's
treasures. Gold, silver, diamonds,
lands and castles are as nothing in com-
parison to that most desirable of all
earth’s blessings, a good and noble wife.
The Turkeyfoot News Has a Just
Grievance.
The Turkeyfoot News, the sprightly
little paper published at Confluence,
has a grievance. It is a just grievance,
too, and THE Star holds the same
opinions as the News on the topic which
that paper so ably discusses in the fol-
lowing lines:
“Sometimes we go to church, and
wher we do, it is with some well de-
fined purpose in view. Sometimes
we want to hear the singing and see
the pretty girls in the choir, and again
we may want to see the preacher and
listen to an instructive sermon. But
whatever the purpose that leads us to
the Lord’s sanctuary, we are there to
see as well as to hear, and if at such
times we find ourselves environed by
a multitude of towering hats with
nodding plumes and Merry Widow
rims, and only able to gét perhaps one
little corkscrew peek at the preacher
during a service, we feel that we have
a grievance, and on behalf of the men
folks of the community we intend to
give it some air. Every boy and every
man, no matter where he lives, was
taught in his bib-and-tucker days to
remove his hat or cap whenever he
entered a house, theatre or church, and
so well has the lesson been learned
that it rarely becomes necessary to
tell anyone of the male persuasion to
remove his hat at any indoor public
gathering. It is a beautiful custom,
and the removal of hats when we enter
a church is an indication of our respect
for the Lord’s house and His service.
It does not concern us when we enter
a church whether our hair is parted
straight or not, or whether we have
any hair at all—off goes our lids, and
our thoughts busy themselves with
higher and nobler things. Now if this
is the correct caper for the gander,
Why, oh, why is it not also the proper
caper for the goose?”
— et
THE ACCIDENT-GRANTSVILLE
(MD.-PA.-W. VA.) GEOLOGIC
FOLIO.
Important New Pupliecation by
United States Geological Survey.
The latest addition to the geologic
map of the country which is in prepa-
ration by the United States Geological
Survey and is being issued in parts
called folios, describes two adjoining
areas situated for the most part in the
northwest corner of Maryland. By the
Survey these areas are called the Ac-
cident and Grantsville quadrangles.
Each covers one-sixteenth of a square
degree, or about 230 square miles.
Nearly all the area of these guadran-
gles is in Garrett county, Md., but a
strip about 2 miles wide, exlending
across the northern edge of both quad-
rangles, lies in Fayette and Somerset
counties, Pa., and another strip two-
thirds of a mile wide on the western
edge of the Accident quadrangle is in
dispute between Garrett county, Md.,
and Preston county, W. Va. The
largest towns of the Accident quad-
rangle are Friendsville and Accident,
Md. ; those of the Grantsville quad-
rangle are Salisbury, Pa. and Grants-
ville and Barton, Md.
CO-OPERATION WITH THE MARYLAND
SURVEY.
These quadrangles were surveyed in
co-operation with the Maryland Geo-
logical Survey, the field work having
been completed by G. C. Martin, now
of the Federal Survey, while he was
still a member of the State organiza-
tion, and the folio was prepared under
the supervision of William Bullock
Clark, the co-operating geologist. Full
discussions of the areas are published
also in reports issued by the Maryland
Geological Survey, particularly in those
on Garrett county, by Mr. Martin.
MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE REGION.
The areas contain important mineral
resources, as yet in a very early stage
of development. Coal is now, and will
probably long continue to be the most
important product ; but deposits of fire
clay have been found which are ex-
tremely promising,and it is not un-
likely that this and other important
clay and cement industries will be
established in the future. The supply
of limestone in this region is inexhaust-
ible, bat it has been drawn upon only
for local use. Iron-ore depositssimilar
to those which in neighboring regions
have been of great value in the ‘past
are also found here, yet they hold only
remote possibilities for future develop-
ment. Some of the sandstones and
limestones are suitable for local use as
building stone and road material.
~ AGRICULTURE AND MINING.
Portions of the areas poorer in miner-
al deposits contain rocks from which a
rich soil has been formed. These re-
gions will be much benefited through
the development of the mining areas,
by the market which will thus be pro-
vided for agricultural products, and
the mining regions will in turn receive
much benefit from being surrounded
by rich and prosperous farming re-
gions, :
Maps AND DESCRIPTION OF THE REGION,
The folio text describes in detail the
areal distribution, sequence, and struc-
ture of the rocks and the valuable
minerals contained in the formations,
and the same details are shown by the
geologic maps and sections. A topo-
graphic map of each quadrangle ex-
hibits faithfully the surface features—
the hills, streams, roads, and even the
location of isolated houses.
The Accident-Grantsville folio is one
of several describing the quadrangles
that lie along the northern border of
Maryland between the Allegheny pla-
teau and the sea. to be published in co-
operation with the Maryland Geologic-
al Survey. These folios will form an
educational series to illustrate the
geology of the middle Atlantic slope.
In accordance with the provisions of
Jaw, the Survey maps and folios are
sold, but the prices fixed (for this folio
25 cents) cover merely the cost of pa-
per and printing. Prepayment is oblig-
atory, and applications should be ad-
dressed to the Director of the United
States Geological Survey, Washington,
,.C,
SOLDIER BALKS DEATH PLOT.
It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civil war
veteran, of Kemp, Tex., that a plot ex-
isted between a desperate lung trouble
and the grave to cause his death. “I
Then I began to use Dr. King’s New
contracted a stubborn cold,” he writes,
“that developed a cough that stuck to
me, in spite of all remedies, for years.
My weight ran down to 130 pounds.
PRICES OF MERCHANDISE IN 1844.
Ye, Kickers, Compare these Prices
With Present-Day Prices of
Store Goods.
Every time there is a panic or de-
pression in business, you can hear the
stereotyped remark on all sides that
times were never before so hard. Dur-
ing the past year, especially, the re--
mark has been freely made that alk
manner of store goods were never be-
fore so high in price and the general
cost of living so great.
Let us see whether such are actually
the facts. For example, let us go back
to the good old days of 1844, long be—
fore the great Civil war caused thes
prices of all kinds of merchandise to
soar skyward. In 1844 our oldest men:
of today were young men, fully grown.
strong, healthy and excellent workers,
receiving from 20 to 75 cents per day
for their labor, according to the season
of the year and kind of work they had:
to perform. In those days people lived.
in poor houses with bare floors, the:
rudest and cheapest of furniture, nc
modern conveniences of any kind, few:
books and newspapers; no magazines,
no musical instruments, in fact prac-
tically nothing but actual necessities.
They wore poor clothes, very little an-
‘| derwear, few overcoats and wraps, ate
plain and inexpensive food, and the
children all, as well as many of the
men and women, went bare-footed in
summer, and a day’s work was any-
where from 12 to 14 hours.
But what did they pay for store
goods? We will give you some figures
and itéhns from a day book used in the
store of the editor’s grand-uncle, the
late Christian C. Livengood, plainly
and neatly written with a goose quill
pen. And “Uncle Christ’s” prices
always ranked too low for his own
profit, for he was a man of great gener-
osity and kindness of heart. Follow-
ing are figures and other data copied
from his book, all for the year 1844.
Peter Gundle, to 8 yds. calico, 75¢.
Philip Baits, to 1 quart bottle, 12}5c..
David Livengood, to essence pepper-
mint, 12%¢.
Solomon Durst, to 8% yds. muslin,
1.06.
Samuel Engle to 2 yds. flannel, $1.25
Israel Welfley to 1 gal. cil, 87c.
Conrad Mayer to 1 yd. check, 18)sc.
Solomon Durst to 29 lbs. sheet iron,
$3.62.
Sally Swartzendruber, 1 yd. Mareno
and 1 comb, 87%c. :
John Arnold to1 oz. cloves, 12%4e.
and 16 lbs. iron, $1.00.
John C. Livengood to 2 sheets paste--
board, 12%4e¢., and 2 yds. calico, 37sec.
Jonathan Miller to 414 yds. cotton
flannel, 85e¢.
Jacob Folk to 10%
$2.381%.
Henry Patton to 8 yds. calico, $1.75.
Sally Shultz to 18 yds. muslin, $2.25.
John Rosenbaum to 1}4 yds. red
flannel, 75c.
Levi Shockey to 825 lbs. tallow, 68ec.,.
and }4 gal. molasses, 44c.
Samuel 8. Miller to 1 pair mits and
3 handkerehiefs. $1.81.
Jacob Heinbaugh to 5 lbs. cotton,
$1.25.
Jacob Yoder to 4 yds. Canton flannel,
75¢.
Wm. Wagner, per Philip, to 1 paper
tacks, 12%5c.
John Shook to 5 lbs. scrap iron, 50c.
Benjamin Dellaven to 2 yds. cloth
and trimming, $9.44; 3 yds. casanet,.
$4.12; 114 yds. Kentucky Jean, $1.46.
Hannah Lane to 2 yds. drilling, 87sec.
Samuel Gletfelty & Co. to one half-
round file, 37c.
Jacob Livengood to 8 lbs. blister
steel, $1.00.
Samuel Heinbaugh to 12 sheets pa--
per, 12¢.
Peter A. Beachy to 4 lbs. batting, 75c..
Solomon Durst to 34 yd. Irish linen,.
87%ec.
James Linsey to 1 quart whiskeyg,
12%e.
Conrad Bittner to 15 lbs. nails, $1.05
We could give many other figures,
but the foregoing will suffice to show
the difference between the prices of
merchandise of those days and now,.
also the difference in the articles pur--
chased then and now. In the large:
book before us, there are comparatively
yds. ticking,
things as they could raise and supply
from the woods and streams. Canned:
goods ‘were practically unknown, as
were also the various brands of cereal
foods, ete., ete. Those were good old
days, to be sure, and whiskey was
cheap, but let us give thanks that we
completly.
For severe Colds,
IT IS BAD BUSINESS to allow peo-
ple to look in vain through the col-
re Constipation, Headache.
Lick Pharmacy. 3-1
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umns of THE Star for an advertise- |
Pneumonia it’s unrivaled. 50c. and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
| by Elk Lick Pharmacy.
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obstinate Coughs, | you say?
Hemorrhages, Asthma, and to prevent | and since the Civil
Guaranteed
of younger generations grew up and
Discovery, which restored my health |live in 2a much more desirable period
I now weigh 189 pounds.”
| of our country’s history. Panic, did
We who were born during
war have never
seen a panic that wasn’t better than
the most prosperous days of our fore-
| fathers.
few purchases of groceries given, for-
the people lived principally on such