Gountp Star.
VOL. XV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 1. 1909.
NO.12,
WANT COLUMN.
For Sale, For Rent,
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AN OPPORTUNITY.
WANTED !—A hustler for
each town in Somerset county
to represent a strong old line
‘eastern life ond accident com-
pany, having $1,000,000.00 cap-
.ital stock. This is a good open-
"ng for a hustler. Write, giv-
ing age and reference. All
communications confidential.
“MANAGE,” P. O. Box 134,
McKeesport, Pa.
Six Post Cards for bec. at
Egan’s. , tf.
Three packages Indian Corn
Flakes, or 3 large bottles Blue-
ing, or 2 large cans Veribest
‘Pork and Beans
Egan’s. tf.
Timothyga Seed, $2.00 per
bushel. Clovor Seed, $6.00 per
push. H. C. SHAW.
¥ ost received a fine lot of
Lake Herring, at Egan's gro-
cery. tf.
NOTICE!
Persons wanting Rural Mail Boxes
on route No. 1, Elk Eick, Pa., which
\ goes into operation on Saturday, May
1st, 1909, should leave orders with C. R
Haselbarth & Son. I have made ar-
rangements with them to handle the
different kinds of boxed approved by
the Postoffice Department for the
Rural Service. 4-1
A. B. LORE, P. M.
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Egan sells 21bs of od Coffee
for 25c. tf,
A B.B. H. Special Wateh,
good time-keeper, guaranteed
~ for one year, only 75c., at Egan’s
store. tf
Persian Dates, 7c. per 1b., at
Egan’s grocery. tf
Cleaned and stemless Cur-
rants, only 9c. per 1b., at Egan’s
grocery. tf
FREE SEEDS.
—
Tue Star has on hand a nice assort-
ment of vegetable seeds to distribute
among its friends and patrons, free of
charge, while they last. For these
seeds we are under obligations to our
most excellent representative in Con-
gress, Hon. Allen F. Cooper.
BUT REMEMBER, none of
. these seeds will be doled out to chil-
dren, no matter whose children they
- are, and for this we have very good
‘easons, which need not be stated here.
fowever, all adult friends and patrons
I this paper can get a share of these
, ‘seeds by calling at THE STAR office for
them.
, Those knowing themselves to be in-
debted to this paper, will please bring
with them some money to’ apply on
their subscription.
M&F REMEMBER, the seeds are
free to you, but don’t act as though the
paper was also a free gift, for it isn’t,
and we want you to know that we need
our money and expect you to pay up,
if you owe us. tf
Salisbury Normal School.
The School Board of Salisbury Bor-
ough is pleased to announce a Summer
Normal School, which will be held in
Salisbury, beginning May 10th, and
continuing 8 weeks. The Principal of
this school will be Prof. James A.
Shook, A. B., who is at present head of
the Salisbury High School. Prof.
Shook is a graduate of Juniata College,
and an efficient and experienced teach-
er, under whose instruction -it will be
an inspiration to come.
This school will be second to none in
the county. The rates will be reason-
able and individual attention will be
given to each pupil, by the Principal.
The best text books will be used, and
theterm will be concluded by an ex-
amination under the County Superin-
tendent. Teachers should not fail to
take ‘advantage of this opportunity.
There will be another department,
separately organized, in which courses
for 2hc., at.
will be offered for Grammar and Inter-
mediate grades. This department will
be under the direction of Miss Marga-
ret Glotfelty, an experienced and effi-
cient teacher in the Salisbury Public
Schools.
Those desiring to enroll in the Teach-
ers’ School, address Principal James A.
Shook, Elk Lick, Pa., and those desiring
to enter the school for Grammar and
Intermediate grades, address the As-
sistant Prircipal, Miss Margaret Glot-
felty, Elk Lick, Pa. tf
Ir Senator Penrose is a boss, as his
political enemies charge, be is bossing
Pennsylvania politics in the interest of
the people; and bosses and devils are
all entitled to their just. dues.—Con-
nellsville Coutiér.
re.
Over in Fayette county the court has
inspectors appointed whose business it
is to inspect.-all licensed hotels in that
county, to ascertain whether the same
are furnishing good meals, good rooms
and beds, and also report the sanitary
conditions, degree of cleanliness and
general character of the accommoda-
tions of Fayette county’s public houses.
When the reports show that the hotels
are not up to a reasonable standard of
excellence, but run merely for the pur-
pose of dispensing liquor, or if any are
reported as disorderly and disreputable
places, the proprietors of all such are”
to be refused license to sell liquor. The
same sort of inspection is badly needed
in Somerset county, as some of Somer-
set county’s hotels are but little more
than saloons, and in some cases very
tough ones at that. Some are doing
business at places where there is no
need whatever for a hotel, but perhaps
they are needed to make inmates for
our county jail, keep bread from the
mouths and clothes from the backs of
mothers and children, make business
for the lawyers and pile up needless
expense for the thrifty, industrious and
law-abiding element of our people to
pay. This state of affairs will probably
exist as long as the granting of liquor
license remains a function of the courts,
under existing law, but if the people
ever get 8 swipe at the evil with ‘their
ballots, many stinking and practically
exclusive rum holes now doing business
under the guise of hotels, will prompt-
ly be obliged to shut up shop. God
speed the day.
He pas
T. W. GURLRY, who conducts a jewel-
ry store on Center street, Meyers-
dale, and also poses as a watch carpen-
ter, manufacturer, and several other
things, is nothing, if not enterprising.
He has had some bad luck (?) in his
time, but you can’t keep a good man
down, even as the whale couldn’t keep
Jonah down, owing to the emetic qual-
ities of the man. Some time ago Mr.
Gurley lost a machine shop by fire, the
actual loss being ‘variously estimated
at from 60 cents to $60,000, according
to who was doing the estimating. It
was the same shop that one. Weimer
has been charged with setting fire to,
and now Weimer is under bail for his
appearance at the next term of crimi-
nal court. Those who know Weimer
best, spurn the very idea that he would
commit a crime of that kind, but, of
course, it is hard to tell what may be
brought out at his trial, : But we are
digressing from the subject, as we
started out to write about Mr. Gurley’s
enterprise. It was announced shortly
after the destruction of Mr. Gurley’s
plant by fire, that he would erect a
much 'arger and better shop, the new
building to be fire-proof.
Gurléy is making his word good, al-
though some people can’t see it that
way. He has already erected a shop
in.the business heart of Meyersdale,
and because it is 'a wooden building,
some people are disposed to kick and
refer to it as Gurley’s fire trap. Fire
trap, nothing! The building is being
constructed out of green hemlock and
scrub pine sap wood, and if that isn’t
fire-proof, we don’t know what is, A
good fire proof building (of that kind)
can be erected at a cost not exceeding
$9,476,521.14, according to our mechan-
ical editor’s most careful calculation,
making reasonable allowance for
bronze doors made out of Mr. Gurley’s
own brass, and liberally bejeweled
with fine diamonds, emeralds and ru-
bies from Mr. Gurley’s jewelry shop
and blackjack store. More power to
Gurley, for his nerve entitles him to it.
The Meyersdale kickers deserve no
credit for pawing and kicking the air,
when discussing the tactics of their
most thrifty citizen.
UP BEFORE THE BAR.
N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts-
field, Vt., writes: ‘We have used Dr.
King’s New Life Pills for years and
find them such a good family medicine |
we wouldn’t be without them.” For
Chills, Constipation, Biliousness or Sick
Headache they work wonders. 25c. |
Elk Lick Pharmacy. 6-1
Well, Mr..
| 26¢.
A TIMELY QUESTION.
Out at Spokane, Washington, dis-
patches tell us, an old hen has aban-
doned her brood of chickens and is car-
ing for a litter of Poland China pigs;
but what is that compared with a white
woman who leaves her baby to the
care of a negro, and she herself takes
care of a pup or two?—Cumberland
Alleganian.:
The Alleganian closes with a very
timely question, and THE STAR can
truthfully add that the white woman
who leaves the care of her baby to a
negro nurse, or any other kind of a
nurse, while the mother is fondling,
nursing or bathing a stinking, hideous
looking poodle dog, as many of them
do, places herself beneath the lével of
the brute creation, and no dog can. as-
sociate with that kind of a woman
without being degraded. The woman
who dotes more on her poodle than on
her baby, in a dirty, degridod b— no,
we won’t call her that, for it would be
a slander upon the average female dog.
—
GOOD ADVICE:
The Teddy bear craze is over, and it
is hoped the people won’t ge crazy’
again over Tafty ’possums. Buy dolls
for your little girls to nurse, not dirty
animals to brutalize their affections.
There is nothing nice about a bear or
a ’possum to nurture good sentiment
in the little girl, but there is in the doll.
Don’t connect a nice little child with a
slimy ’possum.—Philip’s’ Boy in Cum-
berland Alleganian.
Right you are, Mr. Philip’s Boy. It
is time for the Teddy bear craze tosub-
side, and we join you in hoping that no
similar craze will take its place. The
clumsy and tiresome Buster Brown
pictures in the comic sections of the
Sunday newspapers should also be sup-
pressed, as well as much other perni-
cious stuff of the same sort. Keep
right after the monstrosities that need
editorial attention, Mr. Philip's Boy,
and in consideration of the wisdom
contained in the foregoing production
of your pen, we suggest that hereafter
you be dubbed “The Sage of Wills
Creek.” So mote it be!
" KIDNAPPING.
Since the kidnapping of Willie Whit-
la has taken place, and the alleged kid-
nappers captured. much sympathy is
being wasted on the woman in the case.
Emotional and hysterical people are
daily discovering many indications of
so-called refinement in the woman, and
they freely express the hope that if she
is found guilty, that a light sentence
will be given her.
They try to create sympathy for Mrs.
Boyle because she is a woman and &p-
pears to have been well raised. How
much sympathy would the ultra senti-
mental man have for Mrs. Boyle if the
kidnapped boy had been a member of
his own household? How much re-
finemeht would he see in her then? In
that event, Mrs. Boyle would bea fiend
incarnate, and a moral degenerate lost
to all sense of womanly instinct, in the
mind of the ultra sentimental man,
and he would yell loudly for the direst
vengeance that could be inflicted upon
the woman in whose interest he now is
trying to create sentiment and mercy.
If Mr. and Mrr. Boyle are found
equally guilty, they should suffer the
same penalty, and that should be life
imprisonment. Some people contend
that kidnapping should be made a cap-
ital offense, but that would undoubted-
ly be a mistake. Not, however, that
kidnappers do not deserve being put to
death, but because the death penalty
for kidnapping would greatly imperil
the lives of those kidnapped. The
Connellsville Courier points out the
doubtful wisdom of inflicting the death
penalty for kidnapping, in the follow-
ing logical words:
“In States where capital punishment
has been provided for burglary, the
practical result has been to place
householders in deadly fear, because
they know that when the burglar is
aware that he is to be executed if
caught, he will not hesitate.to do mur-
der rather than be taken. If a kidnap-
per is to be put in jeopardy of his life,
he will assuredly destroy the best evi-
dence against him in the person of the
child.
“The proposed death penalty is full
of dire menace to the innocent victim
of the kidnappers. and on this account
alone it should be abandoned.”
“I’D RATHER DIE DOCTOR,
than have my feet cut off,” said M. L.
Bingham. of Princeville, Ill, “but you’ll |
(which had eaten |
all |
die from gangreen
away eight toes) if you don’t” said
doctors. Instead—he used Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve till wholly cured. Its
cures of Eczema, Fever Sores, E
| Burns and Piles astound the
at!Elk Lick Pharmacy.
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TWO HOTEL MEN MOVE.
Much Free Booze to Helpers Brings
on Most Disgraceful Seenes.
West Salisbury was the scene of
numerous disgraceful stunts commite
ted by drunken men, yesterday, as the
result of.two movings at the West Sal-
isbury hotel. Landlord Holler moved
out, and Landlord Paschke moved in,
and the men who helped them earry
out and in the furniture, were, of
course, liberally treated. ’
A general debauch was the result,
and certain respectable people who
happened to be passers by at the time,
report scenes that were fearful and
awful. One poor besotted fellow was
sitting down flat in the mud and filth
of the road, leaning against a picket
fence, while others were filling the air
with wild jestures, profanity and gen-
eral vulgarity, and later in the day
three fights were going on all at once.
It was a fine re Iletaont indeed
forthe two hotel men aforesaid, and
simply shows what the allegations of
good moral character in a license pe-
tition amount to. A hotel is no more
needed in West Salisbury than a saloon
is needed in the Assembly room of our
county Court House, and the saloon
end of it has ever been the curse of
a number of poor families in West
Salisbury. We fell positive that if all’
reports are true that came from West
Salisbury yesterday, (and there seems
two hotel men would promptly have
their licenses revoked, if Judge Kooser
would have been an eye-witness of af-
fairs in and about the West Salisbury
hotel when the two landlords moved.
SWEPT OVER NIAGARA.
This terriable calamity often hap-
pens because a careless boatman ig-
nores the river's warnings—growing
ripples and faster current—Nature’s
warnings are kind. That dull pain or
ache in the back warns you the Kid-
neys need attention if you would es-
cape fatal maladies—Dropsy, Diabetes
or Bright's disease. Take Electric Bit-
ters at once and see Backache fly and
all your best feelings return. “After
long suffering from weak kidneys and
lame back, one $1.00 bottle wholly
cured me,” writes J. R, Blankeitship. of
Belk, Tenn. Only 50c. at Elk Lick
Pharmacy. 5-1
Some Surprised Gamblers.
Last Sunday morning C. W. Stotler,
the well-known Salisbury liveryman,
got up at an early hour to hitch up a
team for a customer, but when he ar-
rived at his stable and tried to flash on
the electric light, the light refus-d to
flash.
He soon discovered that some one
had tampered with his lighting appa-
ratus, and when he attempted to enter
his harness room, the door seemed to
be fastened from the inside. Thinking
he heard voices on the inside, “Clayt”
proceeded to say a few things that
caused the door to be speedily opened.
Then there was a general scatter-
ment, for Mr. Stotler had unearthed a
nest of poker players, and they almost
fell over each other in trying to make
their escape. All of them were recog-
nized, however, and in the midst of
them was whisky, as well as evidences
of more that had been there earlier in
the game It is needless to say that
Mr. Stotler was greatly provoked at
finding an aggregation of that kind in
his stable at that hour of the night, for
just such gangs are usually responsible
for mysterious livery stable fires and
the like of that. :
Gamblers nearly all smoke and
drink, and a gang of drinking, smoking
gamblers. is a dangerous aggregation
to have at a place where there is as
much inflammable matter as is usually
found about a livery stable. Mr. Stot-
ler would be a good man to get before
the Grand Jury to tell what he knows,
and we know of others that would be
just as dangerous to the gamblers if
gotten before that body. And it ought
to be done, too, to protect property
against the risks created by worthless
night prowlers who ought to be at
home with their families.
The poker evil has reached the
danger stage in this community, and it
is time to call a halt.. Our officers
should make a special effort to round
up the gamblers and bring them to
justice, and every good citizen should
lend a hand. It’s bad enough for single
men to gamble, but the married men
who sit around stables and sheds at all
hours of the night, boozing and playing
poker, deserve double censure. Such
men are neither fit for husbands nor |
| their claims.
fathers, and they usually bring up a
brood of criminals and A yagabonds,
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All kinds of Toga! + and Commercial |
Blanks, Judgment Notes, etey, for sale | Ma
t Tee STAR office. tf
Woman Claiming to be from Som-
erset, Figures in Sensation.
Uniontown, March 29.—A scandal
was unearthed last night when Mrs.
William J. Carroll, of near Uniontown,
found her husband in company with a
strange woman, registered as man and |
wife at a local hotel. Mrs. Carroll
found a note in her husband’s pocket,
vesterday, from a Mrs. Charles Griffith,
asking him to meet her 1n Uniontown
at 2:30.
~ Mrs. Carroll accompanied her hus-
band to town and watched him for
some time, but as” he was apparently
attending to business matters, she was
persuaded to return home without him.
When Carroll failed to come home,
she came to town, went to the hotel
and saw the name “Harry Reed and
wife, Charleroi,” written in her hus-
band’s handwriting.
She and the proprietor went to the
room, and after many entreaties, Mrs.
Cdrroll was admitted by the “woman,
who was scantily attired. Carroll was
not there.
Mrs. Carroll went away looking for
her husband, and returned with two
officers. She found both her. husband
and the woman together. They were
arrested, and information was ‘made
against them this morning by County
Detective McBeth. The woman gave
her name as Lizzie Collier, and says
her home is in Somerset. Neither
could furnish bail.
to be no room for doubt) that at least |" old tarnish bal
WORDS TO FREEZE THE SOUL.
“Your son has Consumption. His
case is hopeless.” These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens,
a leading merchant of Springfield, N
C., by two expert doctors—one a lung
specialist. Then was shown thé won-
derful power of Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery. ‘After three weeks use,”
writes Mr. Blevens, “he was as well as
ever. I would not take all the money
in the world for what it did for my
boy.” Infallible for Coughs and Colds,
it’s the safest, surest cure of desperate
Lung diseases on earth. 50c. and $1.00.
Elk Lick Pharmacy. Guarantee satis-
faction. Trial bottle free. 5-1
Somerset Woman Robbed in Cuba.
Mrs. J. B. Allen, formerly Mrs. Ab-
ner McKinley, of Somerset, but now
the wife of a captain in the services of
the Peninsular & Occidental Steamship
Company, was robbed of jewels
amounting to between $10,000 and $15,-
000, last week, in Havana, as she board-
ed a vessel to come to Tampa. Dis-
covering her loss before the boat left,
she went ashore and notified the po-
lice.
Officials on the boat state that Mrs.
Allen was not certain whether she lost
the jewels before she left her hotel or
after she boarded the boat. She had
them in a large alligator-skin satchel,
which she left for a moment in her
room, just before leaving the hotel,
and which she left again for a few
minutes in her stateroom on the boat.
As Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. Allen was
often an admired guest in thé Tampa
Bay hotel, and was noted for the fam-
ous jewels which she wore.
réturn direct to her home
York.
in New
Reyburn Pension Bill Passes Second
Reading.
Harrisburg, March 31.—The Reyburn
Soldiers’ Pension bill passed the House
on second reading this morning, un-
amended. Fuerth, of Wayne county,
proposed an amendment by reducing
the monthly pension from $6 to $5, and
also to eliminate the clause barring
benefits to veterans having an income
of $500. He further proposed to make
the veterans eligibility 90 instead of 60
days.
The bill passed finally today creat-
ing an additional law judge for Cam-
bria county.
After having been defeated in the
House, the Representatives this morn-
ing proposed that the Lydick school
code be reconsidered and placed on the
postponement calendar.
A resolution to continue it two years
by the commission which defeated the
bill was offered, but was withdrawn in
order to give the contending interests
an opportunity to get together on a
bill that can be passed this session.
Creditors of Meyersdale Bankrupt
Receive 24.4 Per Cent.
Referee in Bankruptey J. G. Carroll
of Uniontown, has reported the sched-
ule of distribution in the estate of Mrs.
S. A Clark, a Meyersdale bankrupt, and
creditors will receive 24.4 per cent. on
Mrs. Clark left Meyersdale in Jan-
uary, 1907, and was adjudged a bank-
| rupt some time later.
She will |.
Proposed Garrett County Game
Law.
Following are the provisions of a
new game law proposed for Garrett
county, Md., and which it is believed
will be passed:
1—That no person shall “hunt, pur-
sue or kill” any game unless he first
procures from the Clerk of the Court
a license, at a cost of $5 annually.
These licenses are non-transferable,
and every precaution is provided
against their use by unauthorized per-
sons. They permit only those holding
them to “hunt, pursue and kil}” during
the period when it is lawful te do so.
The bill makes it necessary for every
hunter to carry his license while hunt-
ing. Owners of farm lands may shoot
on their own land without a license,
but this is the only exception. The
mony received is to be turned into the
State Treasury and placed to the credit
of a fund.” Violations of the provis-
ions of the law are punishable by a‘fine
of from $5 to $25, or imprisonment for
not more than 10 days.
2—That it shall be unlawful to hunt.
patridges, rabbits or pheasants while
there is snow on the ground, and to
shoot game on Sundays er election
days. If any person is found in the
woods with a gun when there is a
tracking snow on the ground or on
Sundays or election days, it shall Le
prima facie evidence of violation of the
law. A penalty of $5 for every bird or
animal caught or killed in violation of
the law is imposed, and the bill also
gives County Commissioners the power
to shorten the season.
3—That it shall be unlawful for one
person to kill more than 15 partidges
in one day, or more than 6 pheasants,
or more than 12 woodcock, or more
than 8 rabbits. ‘A penalty of $5 for
each bird or animal killed above the
limit is prescribed.
SELF RELIANCE.
By THE “BARD oF KiMBERLY Rux.”
Dare we not tread on ground
Unpressed by foot of our progenitors?
But rather choose to follow
The berutted road, deep trenched
By wheels of progress that roll
Toward goal foreseen
Quite plainly on ahead?
Are our thoughts penned down
Of lighter weight—of less import
To other minds, because, forsooth,
We did the penning?
Are our thoughts of value less,
Because we gave them utterance?
Were our deeds not worth the doing,
Because twas only we who wrought?
Does. proof exist—is witness found
To say ’tis either right or just
In fostering a timidity that
Might, (for aught we know
This very day) be barring progress
By adding naught to world’s prosper-
ity?
And who would choose to be a debtor?
Yet doubting same himself,
Sit down to feast on that which
Shakespeare has prepared,
And in the very act commit himself
Unconseciously to what he would not
own.
Then leave the beaten track.
To dare the unknown—the unexplored,
And prove to self and others, just
What canbe wrought by hand and
brain
When guided on by Nature's teaching ;
Be her willing slave ; work on.
There be various arts, professions, too,
From which to judge the strongest
Power that within thee lies,
And wherewithal the most congenial.
If the pen should be thy choice,
Then sit thee down and write and think
And strive. Be not unmindful
Of the fact, that should oe sentence
By thee coined, offord a clue in
Bettering humanity,
The balance sheet will show
The human race in debt to thee,
Though small or great, its benefactor.
If thou hast aught to give, withhold
It not ; the sheet lies sti’!
For its recording. Let ror the thought
“’Tis only me,” withho!l ihe pen
rom action. Write on. and writing,
ink,
And thyself rely.
New Trolley Line !'nder Way.
The Somerset Street Railway Com-
pany has received its first consignment
of material to be used in constructing
their line from Somer-+t to Roekwood,
and work will be corimenced as soon
as the weather permiis. A quantity
of rails and ties are now at the P. W.
& 8. depot, and it is stated that several
cars and dynamos will be shipped in
April. Work has been commenced on
the line at Rockwood. and it is stated
that the line will be in operation with-
Attorney R. S.
, of Connellsville, was trustee | ject will d
¢ |
in three months. ITveryone is highly
{in favor of trol nections between
| Somerset and iwoad, and the pro-
e a paying
Democrat,