Gountp Star
VOL. XV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 15. 1909.
NO. 14.
A Sure Tip on
Seven Small Ifs
and a Big Cinch.
If you're a Merchant you favor Home
Trade.
"If you favor Home Trade you'll fight
y
z / ‘more.
for it.
If you Fight For It Right you'll get it.
If you get it you'll be Helping Yourself.
If you help yourself you’ll hurt the
Mail Order Trade.
If you hurt the Mail Order Trade you'll
be wise. *
If you are wise You Will Advertise.
If You Will Advertise in your Home
Paper you'll get Home Trade. .
No “IF” about this last one—it's a
CINCH.
WANT COLUMN.
For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, Etec.
To Tue ReEPuBLICAN VOTERS oF Som-
ErRSET COUNTY.
I hereby announce myself as a Republi-
ean candidate for the nomination of Direc-
tor of the Poor, and respectfully ask the
support of the Republican voters at the
coming Primary Election to be held on
Saturday, June 5th. I filled this office some
years ago, honestlv and conscientiously,
and amg willing to be judged by the record
then made. JACOB W. PECK,
Summit Township.
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Six Post Cards for bc. at
Egan’s. tf.
D&@ Ask my customers whether
they ever knew me to fail in putting an
Organ or Piano in good condition that
I wis called in to tune or repair. I
have been doing work in Salisbury and
vicinity for more than 17 years, and
am willing to be judged by my work.
: CHas. H. Lantz.
Three packages Indian Corn
Flakes, or 3 large bottles Blue-
ing, or 2 large cans Veribest
Pork and Beans for 25c., at
Egan's. tf.
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MD&F~1t costs no more to get Lantz,
the Reliable Tuner and Repairer, to
tune or repair ycur Organ or Piano,
"than “to hire it done by a mere pre-
ender, although it’s worth a good deal
Cus. H. Lantz.
Timothy Seed, $2.00 per
bushel. Clovor Seed, $6.00 per
bushel. H. C. Saaw.
4-22 =
IF Lantz, the Reliable Piano and
Organ Tuner and Repairer, is still here
and still busy.
Just received a fine lot of
Lake Herring, at Egan’s gro-
cery. tf.
IF Lantz, the Reliable Piano and
Organ Tuner and Repairer, takes this
means of thanking his many Salisbury
patrons for the great amount of work
they have been giving him during the
past 17 years.
Egan 3211s 2 lbs of good Coffee
for 25c. tf.
f& Owing to the way orders keep
pouring in for Piano and Organ Tuning
and Repairing, I am still registered at
the Valley House, and will remain as
long as business remains as good in my
Cuas. H. LANTZ,
The reliable Tuner.
line as present.
0m
Egan’s grocery.
D® Where others fail in putting
Organs and Pianos in good condition,
Lantz always succeeds. A trial comn-
vinces the most skeptical.
A B.B. H. Special Watch,
good time-keepér, guaranteed
for one year, only 75c¢., at Egan’s
store. tf
O@1t makes a big difference
whether your Organ or Piano is tuned
or repaired by a man who has learned
his trade under workmen of long ex-
perience, or by one who. has just gone
to work at the business without experi-
ence and proclaimed himself a tuner
and repairer. I have learned my trade
under experts, and my 21 years of ex-
perience count for something.
Cuas. H. Lantz,
The Reliable Tuner.
Cleaned and stemless Cur-
rants, only 9c. per lb., at Egan’s
grocery. tf
®F When you get the undersigned
to tune or repair your high-priced
Piano or Organ, you can rest assured
that it will not be injured instead of
being benefitéd. Some so-called tuners
and repairers do an instrument more
harm than good. Cras. H. Lantz,
WANTED !—Rents to collect, Deeds
Mortgages, Pension Vouchers, etc. to
fill out and attest. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. P. L. LI1VENGOOD,
tf 3 Star Office.
WANTED, MEN AND WOMEN TO
SWEAR and affirm before the under-
signed, when they have documents to
which lawful affidavitsiare required. I
also draw up all manner. of deeds,
leases, mortgages, etc., neatly and ac-
curately, according to the require-
ments of the law. Typewritten work a
specialty.
A full line of legal blanks always on
hand. P. L. LIVENGOOD,
Notary Public and Conveyancer./
Star OrricE, Elk Lick, Pa. tf
Tue fearless and noble Haskell es-
capes trial on the ground that the
grand jury which indicted him ought
to have been composed of only sixteen
men, under an old law applying to the
Indian territory, instead of twenty-
three that did return the indictment.
Could anyone ask more convincing
proof of his innocence?—Cleveland
Leader.
CN RR rl]
SoME of the newspapers and small-
fry preachers are again slopping over
about the so-called divorce evil. The
alleged devorce evil is nat a very great
evil, but the mismated matches of fools
is a gigantic evil and manace to man-
kind. The kind of people who usually
apply for divorces, do a better act by
getting unmarried ‘than they did by
‘getting married. There are exceptions,
of course, but they only prove the rule.
Two fussing, racketing fools yoked to-
gether for life usually do more harm
than they would do if divorced.
THE SALISBURY STAR approves of the
Fayette county plan which makes an
annual inspection of the premises of
hotels applying for license and informs
us that “some of Somerset county’s
hotels are little more than saloons, and
in some cases very tough ones at that.”
The same condition obtained in Fay-
ette county, until the judges assumed
that under the law they had a right
and it was their duty to pass upon the
fitness of the hotel as well as the char-
ecter of the landlord.—Connellsville
Courier..
Thinks Vaeceination Cause of Can-
cer.
New York, Jan, 30.—Dr. W. B. Clark,
a well-known physician, insists that
vaccination is the cause of cancer.
He says:
“A cancer was practically unknown
until eowpox vaccination began to be
introduced. Cancer, I believe, is a dis-
ease of cell life, a disturbance of its
equilibrium, manifested by the rapid
growth of cells and the consequent
building up of a tumor. I have had to
do with at least 200 cases of cancer,
and here declare that I never saw a
case of cancer in an unvaccinated per-
son.
“The way vaccination causes cancer
is like this: It takes 21 years to make
a man, and but four to make a cow, the
former being of slow cell growth and |
the latter rapid. To put the rapid-
growing cells, or protoplasm, of a dis-
eased animal (in a condition of virulent
infectious activity) into the slow-
growing cells of man, is to disturb the|
equilibrium of cell life and create that
disparity, disarrangement, and dis-
organization which, when the season |
for cancer comes late in life, results in
cancer, if not tuberculosis earlier.”
REV. E. S. JOHNSTON, D. D.
A Popular Salisbury Clergyman
Who was Agreeably Surprised
and Appropriately Remem-
bered on His 75th Birth-
day.
Rev. E. 8. Johnston, D. D., of this
place, was very agreeably surprised
last week. On Friday, April, 9, 1909.
this faithful minister was seventy-five
years old and also had just about com-
pleted forty-nine years in the active
ministry. As early as Wednesday, let-
ters of congratulation began arriving,
and by the end of the “week, between
three and four hundred were received
by him. They came from all parts of
the United States, from the North,
East, South and West, from classmates,
from former and present parishioners,
from friends. They all brought a word
of cheer and good will, and many con-
tained nice sums of money as an expres-
sion of firm friendship. Besides the
letters and money, he was the recipi-
ent of beautiful flowers, and his many
friends of the town carried baskets of
good things to the home. It surely
must have proved a happy and blessed
day to Dr. Johnston and his family.
Dr. Johnston is a noble and faithful
minister in the Lutheran church, hav-
ing served as pastor at Harrisburg,
Emmitsburg, Md., Stedystown, Salis-
bury, and is at present pastor of the
Wellersburg charge of this county.
He is widely known and universally
respected in the church, as attested by
the fact that so many of his colaborers
and ministers prominent in the church
so kindly remembered him.
Although he is seventy-five years
old, “his natural force is not abated.”
He walks as straight and spry as a man
of forty, keeps all his appointments,
and preaches with his old-time vigor
and earnestness, which we always con-
sidered of the firzt order.
He is not old, regardless of his years,
por has he grown weary, although he
has preached forty-nine years. He
drives sixteen miles in rain and sun-
shine, storm and calm, to serve his
people without any disappointments.
To know him is to know how young he
is; to be a parishioner is to know how
faithful he is; to hear him is. to know
how excellent a preacher ho is,
He and his noble companion have
been residents of our town fourteen
years, and the town never had better
ones. Long may they live to enjoy
each others company, and Le topreach ;
and when they must vacate their
happy home on Beachy avenue, may it
be to become residents of a city not
made with hands. We all want them
to go to Heaven from Salisbury.
“I’D RATHER DIE DOCTOR,
than have my feet cut off,” said M. L.
Bingham, of Princeville, Ill, “but you'll
die from. gangreen (which had eaten
away eight toes) if you don’t” said all
doctors. Instead—he used Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve till wholly cured. Its
cures of Eczema, Fever Sores, Boils,
Burns and Piles astound the world.
25c. at Elk Lick Pharmacy. 5-1
Dangers of a Large Stomach.
" The inclination of a normal healthy
body, when depositing fat, is to deposit
it uniformly through its various parts.
Of course, the phyiscal conformations
of various persons may exhibit physical
idiosyncrasies, but the general rule is
toward the depositing of the fatty tis-
sue in an even layer throughout the
entire body, tending toward the har-
monious development of every part.
An enlarged stomach indicates, on
| the part of its owner, lessened vital re-
| sistance. One possessing a defect of
| this nature finds it a .great deal more
| dificult to recover from a disease of
| any kind. Even thin, emaciated in-
| dividuals have less difficulty in recov-
| ering from ill health, than do those
whose abdominal region is greatly en-
| larged.—Bernarr Macfadden in April
{ Physical Culture.
A GRAND OLD MAN.
Editor's Grand Unele, Elias Peck,
Passes Away at Great Age of Near-
ly 94 Years.
Tue Star is informed by Ephraim
Peck, of Falls City, Neb., that his father,
Elias Peck, died on Monday, the 5th
inst., at the ripe age of 93 years, 7
months and 29 days.
Elias Peck will be remembered by
many of the older readers of THE STAR
as one of the old-time residents of Elk
Lick township who emigrated to Ne-
braska many years ago. He was a
brother of the late John Peck, who
died some years ago at the old Peck
homestead in that part of Elk Lick
township known as “the Peck corner,”
on the west side of Negro Mountain,
which was cut off Addison township
and annexed to Elk Lick a score of
years ago. Ei
Elias Peck was the last surviving
member of his generation of the Peck
family. His grandfather was one of
the early settlers of Addison township,
having located on Glade Run, near the
“Big Spring,” about the time that the
Livengoods, Lichtys, Beachys, Keims
and other pioneers whose numerous
progeny are scattered all over the
United States, located in Elk Lick
township. :
Elias was born August 7, 1815, on the
old Wilhelm farm, in Elk Lick town-
ship. On September 1, 1839, he was
married to Mary Klingaman, and they
began their married life on a mountain
farm in Addison township adjoining
the original Peck homestead, which
succeeded to his brother John.
In those days it was hard to wring
more than a mere living from the rocky
soil of old Addison, but by industry
and thrift Elias Peck soon became
recognized as a successful farmer.
Soon after the close of the Civil War,
he sold his mountain farm for a few
thousand dollars and became a tenant
on the old Flickinger and “Johnny”
Bueghley farms in Elk Lick and Sum-
mit townships. Under his manage-
ment these farms were among the
best tilled and most productive in
Somerset county.
In the spring of 1873 Elias Peck ceas-
ed to be a tenant farmer, ana with his,
family emigrated to Richardson county,
Nebraska, whence his sons George and
Noah had preceded him in 1871. He
located about six miles north of Falls
City, where he engaged in general
farming with his sons Ephraim and
Urias, until old age compelled him to
retire. He was in excellent health al-
most throughout his more than four
score and ten years, but the last dee-
ade of his life was spent in total blind-
ness. Four days before his death he
suffered a stroke of paralysis from
which be could not recover on account
of his advanced age.
Mr. Peck was an almost lifelong
member of the Chureh of the Brethren,
and was a Christian in practice as well
as by profession. He was a good man,
and just in his dealings with his fellow-
men, as many can testify. He was laid
to rest on April 7th; in the Silver Creek
cemetery, by the side of his wife, who
preceded him to the grave nearly 20
years ago. He is survived by four
children, 40 grandchildren and 16
great grandchildren. His only surviv-
ing son is Ephraim Peck, at whose
home he died, and where his declining
years were passed. Three other sons,
George, Noah and Urias, preceded him
to the spirit land. The surviving
daughters are Mrs. Ann Fike (widow of
the late Samuel R. Fike) who lives
about one mile south of Meyersdale,
Pa.; Catherine, wife of 8. W. Knisely,
of Falls City, Neb. ; and Elizabeth, wife
of Samuel Fisher, of Curtis, Neb. One
daughter, Susan, died in infancy. Mrs.
Fike, the oldest of the surviving chil-
dren, is in feeble health. Elders Jacob
W. and Lewis A. Peck, of this county,
are nephews of the deceased, who also
had many other relatives residing in
Somerset county.
The maternal grandmother of the
editor of THE STAR, Mrs. Peter Lichty,
who after Grandfather Lichty’s death
became the second wife of the late
Abraham Maust, was a sister of Elias
Peck. It is with sorrow that the edi-
tor chronicles the death of his revered
grand uncle, who was a man among
men, and whose influence for good will
live long after his bones have moldered
to dust.
DS -——
THE BLANKS WE KEEP.
The following blanks can be obtained
at all times at THE STAR office: Leases,
Mortgages, Deeds, Judgment Bonds,
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
Common Bonds, Judgment Notes, Re- |
IT STRUCK A S0}E SPOT.
“As the feller eays, says he, when a
feller throws a stone in the dark, you
never know who gets hit until you hear
some feller or his wife or somebody
else set up a howl” So runneth the
saying of some wise guy or sage whose
name we cannot now recall.
Two weeks ago THE STAR was ap-
prized of the fact that C. W, Stotler
had routed a gang of midnight poker
players out of his stable. Tre Star
mentioned no names, because the
identity of the livery stable bums and
pokerists had not been disclosed to us,
although we were informed that the
gang was partly made up of married
men.
In commenting on the incident, THE
Star freely expressed its opinion of
the kind of moral degenerates, espec-
ially married men, who prowl around
stables and sheds at night, drinking,
smoking and playing poker, to the ut-
ter neglect of their wives and children.
We threw a stone in the dark, as it
were, but it appears that a certain fel-
low got hit real hard, and likely in a
tender spot, too, for it promptly
brought fort the customary howl. And
it came in the way that moral degen-
erates and mental weaklings usually
resort to when pricked by a guilty
conscience or suffering from a hard
bat of solid, wholesome truth. The
guilty, smitten fellow had his wife
promptly notify the editor to cancel
their subscription to THE STAR.
My, what a jolt! When the editor
got the notice he immediately saw his
financial finish. Visions of the wolf
howling at his door, Sheriff sale bills
and Constable “Barney” Krausse in
law-business up to his ears—all these
and many other dire calamities began
to crowd themselves upon our mind.
Even our big cylinder press began to
groan and moan until it started in
motion and kept going until the glider-
fluke got a hot box. which caused the
woppertychoke to be thrown out of
gear, and then the main guy pole got
balky and fell with a heavy thud upon
the dingus. knocking the flipper-flopper
onto the esnipper-snapper, which threw
the gang plank out of joint and caught
the hokus-pokus end of the dunner-
wetter device and turned on power
enough to make the big cylinder re-
volve at the rate of 999 revolutions per
minute. The old press would be run-
ning yet, if we hadn’t called in about a
dozen strong farm hands to help us
stop if, and the Lord only knows how
much damage would have been done,
and all because a pretty good woman,
at the request of a worthless husband,
chopped off their subscription to the
local paper.
Ye gods! Myrtle, wouldn't it jar you?
But we are not inthe least angry. We
could yank the little fool of a husband
up before the court and make it. inter-
esting for him if we wanted to, for we
know a good deal more now than we
did two weeks ago. But we’re not go-
ing todo so, out of pure pity. It’s
enough that he had to scoot out
through the livery stable manure hole
when Sotler raided the gang, getting
his clothes smeared with manure in
making his escape, and catching hades
from his wife as a result thereof.
We have always been kind to the
little “hubby” in this case, and we have
no desire to do him an injury now.
We once got him employment when he
was unable to get a job in this entire
region by his own efforts. Of course,
he never appreciated it, and he took
great pleasure in trying to deceive us
on numerous occassions since, such as
trying to make us believe that he was
in sympathy with our candidacy for the
Legislature, etec., all of which, however,
never fooled us in the least.. He
thought he was “playing” us in fine
style, but he was deceiving only him-
self. We knew all along that he didn’t
vote for us, and he didn’t vote for
President Taft, either. It isn’t an easy
matter for a simple mug, a Janus-
faced nondescript, to fool old “Uncle
Pete,” of THE STAR. We sometimes
pretend to be fooled, but inwardly we
laugh at how the would-be deceiver is
fooling himself.
Yes, we're always ready to help a
fellow get employment when he’s out
of a job and wants work, but the re-
cipients of such favors ought always
treat their benefactors on the square.
Furthermore, men who are good work-
ers and in the habit of paying their
honest debts, ought not offset the good
qualities they have by being ingrates,
livery stable gamblers, midnight prowl-
| ers and whisky drinkers. The chap
| we have particular reference to in this
| case, hasn’t been able to look the editor |
squarely in the face since the publish-
| ed account of the livery stable incident
| met his gaze. His own conscience con-
demns him, and he knows in his own
| heart that it was the truth alone that
| offended him. His wife, who is ten
thousand times too good for such a
man, instead of complying with his re-
quest to cancel their subscription,
should have talked to him something
like this: “If you want that subscrip-
tion cancelled, go to Mr. Livengood’s
place of business like a man, and can-
cel it yourself. Don’t try to hide be-
hind the skirts of your wife. You are
only offended at the truth, and you
know it. Quit your poker playing, or
I'll poker you. Mend your ways and
be as decent and as honorable as you
expect your wife to be. and if you de
that you'll never feel hurt when T
Star condemns gamblers. gambling,
drinking and midnight prowling. And
remember, Mr. Man, that there is ne
good reason why decent men sheuld
employ livery stable gamblers so long
as there are so many more worthy men
in need of employment.”
That’s the kind of medicine the wife
in this case should have given the hus-
band, instead of pleasing him by can-
celling the subscription to the home
paper, which ever did, does now, and&
ever will circulate the most in its
locality where good homes, good fa-
thers, good mothers and in‘elligent
people are the most numerous. But
we’ve scratched him off the list, and he
never will be missed.
A Righteous Slap at Knepper and
Floto.
In speaking of the latest murder
committed in Somerset county, the
Connellsville Courier makes the fol-
lowing truthful statement:
“Somerset has a murder mystery.
Somerset has too many murders. It
should have less murders and fewer
mysteries. If its members of the Leg-
islature had voted more favorably to
the State Constabulary bill it might
have fewer crimes of any kind.”
The Courier also voices THE STAR'S
sentiments in the following:
“The defeat of the bill increasing the
State Constabulary was generally re-
gretted, but objections against it were
two-fold, coming from those who would
not consent to advancing the wages of
the Constabulary, as well as from
those who oppose the ‘Cossacks’ on
general principles. The latter are
composed chiefly of Democrats and
labor politicians. Had the bill been
more advanced, it might have been
amended as to the increase of salaries,
and successfully passed.
“The veteran statesman, Hon. Thom-
as V. Cooper, was ready to treble the
present force of State Constabulary,
because it had been a powerful factor
in upholding the White Hand of law
and order against the Red Hand of
riot and the Black Hand of assassina-
tion.
“Those who voted against the bill be-
cause it provided for an increase in
the pay of the State Constabulary did
not take into consideration the hazard-
ous character of the employment. The
work of the Constabulary is worth all
it was proposed to pay for it.”
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. Blankenship, of
Belk, Tenn, Only 50c. at Elk Lick
Pharmacy. 5-1
Not Our Own Boss.
How few of us are really our own
boss! The married men are subjeet te
their wives, the bachelors obey their
landlady, the old maids cater to their
cats and poodles, while all of us bow te
the weak thing called opinion. We
came into his world without our con-
sent and leave it against our protest,
and while here kick at everything that
crosses our path, but all to no purpose.
The world wags on, not caring whether
we live or die, laugh or cry, shout or
sigh, till we turn up our toes and die,
and then, maybe, to freeze or fry—Ex.
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 the 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
t Lung diseases on earth. 50c. and $1.00
| Elk Lick Pharmacy. Guarantee satis-
| faction. Trial bottle free. 5-1
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