The Somerset Herald. EDWARD SCULL, Editor and Proprietor. WEDNESDAY ..September :w, 1S96 REPUBLICAN NATIONALTICKET President. William Mc Kixlky. of Ohio. Vice President. ;aki:kt A. IIobakt, of New Jersey. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Congressmen-at- Large. ;.i.rs!!A A Ciuiw, of SuwjtH'lmnna. SAM1KI. A. IlAVKXPnKT.of Erie. Electori-at-Large. J.-. I!i Wharton, rhiladefpliia. l.-xanil. r K. ration, I'U-artU-ld. William Wilhcrow, All.-glieny. IVtc r L. KituN-rly. Mercer. District Electors. I lr .1. S. I'.nrson I,,. Hf tio '. Pr vost. i Allen It. Korke. I . K- Brown. A Kn.uk li. HetKlley. !7 Kiv.1. H. Eslon. 4 I 1. M.-vers II. '. Known Miller, i Win. M Tic'irart. !. K. H. Nhhitleil. i. .t. i.ii H. Hu.1.1. Il.l-i'. ti.-orsr.T- swank. 7. William F. Sole. A. '. A , , s. John J-ril.. :i Win.N. IL-uidolph. ll.-iirv I.. Johnson.!:;.. K. W.rtheiiucr. l.i .lolui'll. Uoi.tis. iL't. .I.isiali i-r. II Kvcr. It V mit. ii. ijV. i- .iwM K-Al.nmis. IJ. f. W.W il l.-. l:tlorsolcl. l i. Il.rnson Uill. -T- William Seliiiiir H. 1. W. Miller. rJs. Jos. C Caiiip'iclL. CONORKSS. F. J. Kooskk, of Somerset Iior. Sut.jM t to d-. isi.in f tlx' I'Wtn.-t Conference. ASMMIII.V. Wm. II. Mii.i.kk, of I'lieinahoninj: Twp. V. II. S ax s Kit, of Superset Hor. Ass. m 'I AT K JI'lNiK. :f:. J. lii.Ac k, of Mcyersdale Iior. S1IKKIFK. M. H. Ilartzcll, of Kockwood Iior. I'Ki ITIIONOTARV. II. F. UakkiiN, of Somerset Iior. IIKOI-TKK tV. nKlllUI'KB. J. M. fiiViiR, of Jenner Twp. Ti:K.trKi;it. Wm. Wim i.rs of Somerset Twp. I lilM V I.IMMlssl.lNKR. ii;o. 1". Kimmkl, of Milford Twp. (i AliKlLl. .ooi, of Somerset Twp. Pools 11 KKl TOIL J A.vnj W. l'K K, of summit Twp. AfHIToKS. Jfkkmiah Itn.iAi's. of Somerset llor. 15. J. I Sow max, of Iirothersvalley Twp. TnM Watsin is aUnit the only anti M KinKy man who rejoices over the Maine el.i l ion. Jr THixt.s jjo on us they seem to liave starle.l oil', the NoveinU-r vote will U-a siir.' enough It; to I affair. Tu:: Uepuli'.icati State committee es timate the majority for McKiuley in Ohio, at the Novcinlicr election, at i V (. n. The Republicans are not yet claim ing Texas, hut they stand a lietter haiuv of carrying it than the Ienio-v-rats do of carrying Illinois, for in stance. l'owi.K.i.LY hits the nail s.jr.arely on the head when he tells the working man that his motto with regard to money should le "The best is none too ;oih1 fr mi Ir is safe to say that one city will live a majority of over lnO.mMl airainst ilryan. Philadelphia reports a total of :S'i4.744 voters, a "f "essrly sine- last Mnv. TllK liryan papersin the West should now investigate the ship-litiildiii trust and show how Maine is the victim, just its they said Vermont was of the maple sugar trust. TiiK li-st kind of a sound money IVmocrat is the one who proposes to vast his vote directly for McKinley, in stead of wasting it on a man who can not pos-ilily If elected. KkmiiKV went IJepuMican last year, and the condition which causal her todo so still exist, with the dill'cr ence only tliat the Democrats were stronger then than they are this year. M. ink is a state of small farmers. ProhaUy no other state in the I'nion has as many small farmers in projior tion to the total numlier. These men have Invii heard on the suhjectsof free trade and free silver. J. 1'akihin Ai n.ii.K, I Jen ritehfork Tillman. "arl Hohm lirown, Sound Money t'oxey and Illoody I'.ridles Waite are a heautiful quintette of "pa triots" to champion the cause of pood jr.iwniment and national honor! Oiaikmax Jonks arouses one's ad mir.it ion for his nerve when lie says that his confidence in llryan's election has lieen literally forced uhii him. He didn't wa.it to U-lieve it, hut he simply had to. Sprimrlield liepuhliean. Tu at Arkansas crunih of comfort wins to have U-n swept away by the revis.il figures. Latest returns show that Joins, Democrat, has a plurality of 4"i.i;::i. a loss of over ::,h0 votes from ls.ij. while the Republican vote has in-vrca-M (K-r cent. J.::van I cm.MTats and the Topulists have divil.il electoral tickets in so many Northern States that Sewall's election i.i Novemlier is a m ithemnt-i.-al imp t-si-.ility. Vet JSya:i ignores Wat :i. tho.ih every we-k strenirth vs the o'oriaii in the lSryan pr.s irramiue. Tin: f.iet that there is not a silver vv.iutry in tin world in which laUir is paid one-half t!ie averaire wapes paid in the I'nited SUIes, and in which the money when received will buy one half a- much as it will buy here, furn-i-hes a complete answer to liryan's spe.i l.ii-s, so far as the workingmen are oilceriled. A I'oi.i. of:; to Meth-xlist ministers in 1'iio di.l not reveal one who favored the t'liieair platform or the elex-tion of Bryan. Siiw M the nuniU-r are life 1'inc I L'lnoi rat, and will a-t with the party a:rain l.-n the coin leia'r are shaken out of it. Wim.iam 1". Cl ktjs, who was sent to Mexico to ascertain the effect of the 1"rn oinage of silver in that country, his luude a very important discovery, and he tells almut it very entertainingly iii the Chicago Record. He says that Senator Stewart, the great l'ojwrat and free silver advin-ate, owns the con trolling ii. teres! in the largest silver mine in M.-x'kh, and that the profits fr.-m the mine are over a hundred thou sand dollars a year after all theexn-nses are j-aid. At this rale Stewart's profits would In at least fifty thousand dollars, j o w.H4di-r that distinguished old I'op-M-r.it i for free silver. It means big money to him. Rut how sly he was ailioi.t keeping it quiet. Tin: greatest danger in the present ' fciliiical situation, says the St, Louis ! ;ioin-Iemn rat, is not fret silver. That is serious enough of itself to justify all captious and patriotic citizens in voting ! against the party which is advocating t'ie adoption of such a jiolicy; but it , -d'k-s not by any means represent tte -orst that is likely to happen in the -event of llryan's election. The ele- j n.. that Le lej recent will not be satisfied with the dclasement of the currency ; the platform on which he is running is not confined to that one thing as a remedy for the alleged evils and misfortunes of the times. He is the leader of a movement that involves infinite possibilities of mischief. What ever his iiersonal motive and purposes may lie, he is not superior to the forces U'hind him, and can not expect to con trol them. They are nothing if not revolutionary. The spirit by which they are animated is one of general hostility to existing methods and insti tutions. They are sowers of wind who want to reap the whirlwind. It iseasy to see that free silver is only a symp tom, and that the real disease lies .lepcr and includes far more perilous condi tions than those which relate strictly to the currency. We are accustomed to think that such r.n occurrence as the French Revolution is impossible in our country. This may lie true, and yet there are certain traits and qualities of human nature which are never entirely siilxlued bycivili.a tion, and which are the same in all countries. We have passed safely through several severe tests of our abil ity to avert social and politi-al combus tion, but we have never lcfore had just such a situation as the present one to fair. A great party is seeking control of the ovcriimeiit by apjtcals to prej udice and passion, to mercenary and insurrectionary instincts. It aims to array classes against one another in a violent way, and to substitute emotion and exciiemeiit for intelligent and tetn-I-rate discussion. Possibly our com fortable theory that jiolitical explosives are comparatively harmless when jht mitted to have free action, and that the influences of reason and patriotism are a sullicieiit protection against anarchy, is correct, but at the same time, there is room for doubt, and it is U-st not to lie too certain where there is so much at stake. The part of wisdom is to look at the matter soU-rly, and with a due sens of the obligation that rests upon all good citizens to see that seditious and destructive forces do not gain as eiidency in our affairs. TiK good ieople of this country can not ti ud words to express their grati tude to Major McXinley for the service which, as a modest, self-res" iccting citi zensplendidly gifted in all that con stitutes a leader of men he is daily rendering at his home in Canton. It is a sjiectacle which has not I iceu wit nessed In'forc. Kach day the throngs :!piear, representing all phases and grades of American life, and for each this man of the jieople has a fitting word, (iray-haired veterans come with their thrilling memories of heroic days and deed, Uud McKinley remembers that he, too, enlist. d as a private, devo ted then as now to upholding the sov ereignty of law and the honor of the Nation. The Uiys come, who have yet their first ballot to ca.-t, and McKinley iii-pircs them with the thought of the grand put riot, Abraham Lincoln, for whom his first vote wa cast. The sturdy workingnieii come from factor ies and mills of many kinds, bringing their longings for return of the lietter days when for every willing man there was work, with good wages in honest dollars, and McKinley tells them there is no miracle alout it, hut that the laws of ls:ij will restore the prosperity of lV'J. Commercial travellers and rail road men, fresh from contact with the jieople all over the land, bring words of cheer, and McKinley tells them of their great iiillucnee and high rcspoiisihility iu the struggle to save untarnished the Nation's honor. Sweet girls and gentle women bring with them an avalanche of fragrant ti-.iwers, and McKinley wel comes them to the quiet home, graivd by a wife cherished through years of sulfering with a knightly devotion, and awakens in them, too, the desire to do something to save the country and the homes of the jieople from distress. Always manly and dignilied, always apjiealing to the noblest and mist up lifting motives, never at a Iiss for a pithy statement of the truths upon which intelligent and patriotic action must deiH-nd, William McKinley leads the Nation's thought and feeling to-day more truly than any other man living. No word of unfairness to opponents crosses his lips. Those who struck down the National policy which gave the iteople prosjicrity are greeted with -ordial welcome, if they come to help in avoiding National dishonor to-day. F.rmrs are exposed with a simplicity and clearness of statement which few can command, but ln-liind every argu ment and every appeal is a serene and unwavering faith in the integrity ami good sen st of the jieople in their wil lingness and ability to judge rightly if the truth is placed In-fore them. To such a man the arts of the demagogue are useless, and every word that tends to kindle hostility against the sovereign authority or In-tweeii classes or sections seems basely disloyal. The Republican party could not have anticipat'il that the candidate so wisely schvted by the mpular ehoiii fir this emergency would prove himself so Miwerful a fori' in shaping public opin ion. It huihied ln-tter than it knew, as parties will at tim-s, when they for get the counsels of a small expkdicncy, and scli-ct the champion of a great prin ciple. It was In -cau st Major McKinley had In-coino ln-t!er known than any other man as the leader in framing a prosjn rity-bringing tariff that the peo ple insist'i! ujMin him as the represent ative of their desire, l'.ut weeks In-fore they reach the ballot-box tliey have come to know him as one of the wist st and ablest leaders, one of the strongest statesmen, one of the purest and In-st men the Republic has yet produced. The Nation is hoiior.il In-fore all the world which can call from the ranks of private citizenship such a man to nuvt a grave emergency. N. V. Tribune. Kow Honey Stores Value. From I he N.-w Y.ik World. II a man is prudent he tries to spoil, i less than he earns. He tries to save. A man lcgins to have wealth as soon as he liegins to save. A country is prosperous when all its people together spend less thai: they earn. A farmer who grows hay can not save hay; it will spoil after a year or so. If he raises cattle he -an not save cattle; they will die. A milkman can not save milk; it will spoil in a day or two. A shoemaker can not save sh.ies; a tailor can not save clothes, they will git out of style or will rot. Any worker who makes things does not want to save the thing he makes. He wants to sell this for money and "sae money." He may use this saved money to buy other things which he will keep, or he may keep the money itself, or he may lend it to another man or through a bank, and get it liack later when he wai.ts it for something else. He knows that at any time money will liy what he wants w hen he wants it. The hay or leather or shoes, so long as they can In' kept, are likely to fall in val ue from year to year. Money, gio.l money, remains standard. It does iui fall iu value as other things do. Money that falls iu value is not good money. Thus money is used also to store value. It is a staudarij of value. Here's the Record. w York World. Pom. Mr. Iiryau was a Populist four yeare Hv his own public admission at ago. Mount Vernon, 111., on the l.th of March last, as certified to uiu'er oath by twelve citizens of that place, he voted for Wea ver, the Populist candidate for President, in lslfj, and against Cleveland, the candi date of the Peinocraey. There has leen no more significant p:..i e of political news printed since the CS: '- nomination than this announce ment, made exclusively in the World on Tivsday. It is most extraordinary that the fact has not leen sooner revealed. Had it been known at the time of the Chicago convention it is doubtful if even that liody would have nominated Mr. ISryan even in response to his crown-of-t horns spi-ech. The purpose and the method of the dis closure leave no room for doubt as to its perfect trutlL, It was made in an affi davit by twelve of Mr. JSry ail's friends, to relieve him from the charge mi.de by another of his auditors in March last, who said that Mr. P.ryan then proclaim ed that he "was not a Peinocrat," These men aver that he did sy in sulistan.-e that "if the policy carried out by Presi dent Cleveland is I lemocracy, then I am not a I einH'rat." This is alisohitely party disloyalty. A good many Demo crats did not approve of all of Mr. Cleve land's policy. ISiit the twelve citizens continue: ;In answer to the question, "Pidyoii "vote for Cleveland?' lie answered: 'No: "the Democrats of Nebraska supported "the Populist ticket, so as to take away "the state from tho Republicans, and ac "cor.ling to that understanding I voted "for the Populist electors.' " This is explicit. It is an admission that in the great contest four years ago between Democracy and Republicanism Mr. ISryan voted for James 15. Weaver, the Populist candidate, who received 1, I Jnoo votes. Who was Weaver? A f. riner Republi can congressman from Iowa, who never siimiorted a Democratic measure or voted f..r in.ru.rMti.-.ii.n.lafo. And for what did Mr. Weaver stand in that campaign? He stood upon the Oma ha platform, which declared: "(1) For irredeemable legal-tender "paper money, issued to the amount of "sio per capita by the government, to lie "distributed" on the Farmers' Alliance "sulstreasury system or 'in paymentfor "public improvements;' cJ) for free and "unlimited coinage of silver at It! to 1; (3 "for government ownership and opera "tioii of railroads, telegraph and tele phone lines, which could only be secur "ed by confiscation. These and other vagaries and danger ous lunacies made up the Populist plat form of lwc, w Inch M r. Rryau indorsed I y voting for Mr. Weaver, lie wan elec ted to congress by Populist Votes. He tried to get in the Senate by Populist iu tlueiice, upon the distinct understanding that the Populist convention would nom inate him also. This was done, and he has received his ollicial notification of that nomination. If Mr. ISryan is not a politician and Populist, what is he? The Solid Truth, i From Hoke Smith's spm-li at the X.-w York 1I -loriii C hili hound I'unvucy Pinner, May hi, iv-i.) If a President and Congress were elect ed in Noveinler committed to the free and unlimited coinage of ."S71J grains of silver into dollars nearly six months would pass Ix-fore they could In inaugu rated, and six months more Ulore the proposed legislation could lieeoiue law. Pin ing that time creditors would seek to protect themselves against being paid in dollars worth only about thirteen grains of gold, and they would endeavor to make collections before the unlimited coinng" of depreciated dollars liegan. The debtors would not be allowed to remain debtors until they could get the advan tage of paying oil' what they owned at .Vl cents on the dollar; they would lie forced to immediate settlements. Sheriffs and constables would call ujion tin in without delay. Depositors in banks would withdraw their money. The large merchants, forced to settle their foreign indebtedness, would insist upon the im mediate payment of debts due from smaller merchants. Tlie smaller mer chants, in turn, would lie compelled to force colle-'tions from their customers. Th great volume of business conducted Upon credits would cease. Manufacturing enterprises itiuld not af ford to continue lnisiiuss or make -on-tracts until the value of the new dollar could lie settled by the determination of just what .'T1J grains of silver would prove to lie worth. Manufactories would close. lSusincss houses would fail. Ranks would be raided. The unem ployed would he numbered by millions. The farmers would find few purchasers for their products. Want and famine would pervade tho land. Rusiiii-ss interests, reaching from the richest banker to the poortst paid lalmrer, require the removal of all doubt about the meaning of a dollar. No man should In trusted even with an unimportant nomination who docs not rcognize that the value of a dollar is now measured by '.H grains of gold, ami who is not willing openly to declare his pur pose to keep it there. Tie Uses of Money. From the New York World. Iet us sum up the uses of money: First, money is the common medium of exchange. It transfers value. We sell for in nev anything we make. We buy for money anything we want. Money is good anyw here to buy anything that is for sale. Second, money is the corimon measure of value. We do not have to measure out so much 11. hi r for a pair of shoes. Money measures the value of tho Hour and the value ot the shoes. It makes trading simple and easy. Third, money divides value, in wages, among all those who help to make a thing, of twenty people who help to make a pair of shoes, Mch of the twenty gets the worth of his !alor, not in a piece of the shoe, but in his share of its money value. Fourth, money stores value. It Is a standard of value. We count oursaviiigs in money; we'ean buy anything for mon ey at any time when we want it. These are the chief uses of money. Goo. money must le good for all these uses. Gold is good money lnituise it serves all these uses. Silver is not as good money because it 1h-s not serve the use of a storer of values. Silver falls or rises like other things. On "The Crime of '73." The Cincinnati Post publishes a letter from Senator Sherman emanating from the National Republican Campaign Com mittee, defending the position his party took in the so-called "Crime of '7'i." Mr. Sherman declares: "I have never l.oen able to see what motive could have existed for secrecy in this matter. There was no indication whatever tif the fall of silver, and no one could foresee that it was destined to rap idly decline in price. No one asked to have the dollar coined. 'and no one was oppoMil to its discontinuance. "To prove that there was no secrecy and not leave the matter to argument or infcreiu-e copies of the bill were sent to experts all over the country, asking their opinion, anil answers were received ami laid In-fore the Congress in printed form, iu w hich the discontinuance of the silver dollar was thoroughly discussed. "The bill was reprinted thirteen times and extra copies were printed for dis tribution. It was conned over, amended and debated almost as copiously as any measure ever considered iu Congress, and no man in either house proposed to re Uiu the old silver dollar. The fai-t that il w as omitted from our eeins was re- leried to ju debate." I Wheat and Silver. One of Mr. Bryan's strong points In his appeal to the Western farmers is that the low !" of wheat is caused by the de monetization of silver. To lie sure, wheat was higher in 1ST: or iu than it had been in 170, but facts are unimportant in connection with "the crimo of ls7;l." Wheat has unquestionably fallen in price, and so has silver; therefore, if we inflate the prie of silver, the price of wheat must rise. If the decline of wheat has been due to the decline of silver, bow does it happen that the price of wheat is now rising: while that of silver is still going down? In the last week of August, the price of Di-emlier wheat in Chi.ngo was .V5 cents a bushel. u Saturday last it was (i7 cents, a advance of 14 cents, or more than i". per cent, in five weeks. At the former date the price of bar silver in New York wa$ T7 cents an ounce, and on Saturday it was wj cents, a decline of SJ per cent. Clearly the prices of lioth commodities are regulated in the same way. by the world's supply and demand. We pro duce in this country more wheat than we consume, and the price at which we can sell the surplus abroad determines tho price it will command at home. When the foreign demand is small or the sup ply from other countries abundant wheat declines; when exports increasn, prics rise, again. Kven the most confiding Populist must perceive that the re-ciit upward move ment in the grain market has not lieen brought almut by tree coinage or by tho promise of it. Silver has not shared in tho advance, as it should have done by tho Populist tlioory, ln-auso there has been no increased demand for it, and a bushel of wheat will buy actually more silver to-day as well as more iron or steel or aluminum than when it was selling at a dollar. And with the rise in wheat, the quotation of liryan stock de clinePhiladelphia Times. Thacher Pulls Oat. A i.iiAX v, Sept. 27.-Without waiting for the ofhcial notification from the commit tee appointed by the lSullalo convention to tell him of his nomination as the Dem ocratic candidate for Governor of New York, John lioyd Thacher yesterday wrote a letter declining the nomination. Iu it he avowed that it was his purple to organize the Democracy of tho State in a contest on local issues. He goes on to say that as it is apparently the purpose of the Democratic party to contest the election on the sole issue of tho free coin age of silver, it is inqiossible for him to make a campaign on thai question. He adds: "There seems to lie no plai-e in the Demn-ratie party to-day for conservatism. Men are divided into two classes, each entertaining views exceedingly intolera ble to the other. The history of legisla tion is that conservatism iu the end pre vails. I In'lieve that the Democratic par ty, when it approaches the responsibility of legislation, will be true to itself and the people." Mr. Thacher concluded by saying that he has no sympathy for those who desert the Democratic party now in its hour of need. Judge Porter, the nominee for Lieutenant Governor, has also declined the nomination, but this is supp'ised to bo merely a ruse to obtain his promotion to first place on the ticket. Senator Hill was asked to-night if ho intended to attend the meeting of the committee. He remarked that "sullicieiit unto the day is the matter thereof." The State committee will probably sub stitute Elliott Danforth for Thacher at its meeting to-morrow. Wheat Prices for Six Centurisa. i iransje Judd Farmer. A history of agricultural prices for six centuries has just lieen completed iu France. Wheat started in at is, a bush el, advanced to IV. in l-'!7.i, then dropped to '7c. in l-'iiiu, advancing to ?I.:SiS a hun dred years later, hung around a dollar until lTiVan, when it averaged :, but then advanced to a dollar at the opening of this century, reaching nearly "J iu 1-srr, averaging 1.07 in ls.i. and going up tol.4oas the French average for s:l. Since then the prices have declined. Taking $! as the average price of wheat in I still, it was up to 1.1(1 as late as lss jn the I'nited States, the figure for IsM (the latest made up) lieing: I'hiied States Ss; England, 74. and Germany, SJ. Other prices so closely follow w heat that it is almost a Imrometer of values. The value of twenty-two articles of food, clothing and shelter that were worth NJ in 1 still averaged for lsj! in the I'nited States, M, England, hi, Germany, ft, France. 7!. Can any one doubt that the Wit torn has been reached? All history seems to indicate that the coming years are to see an upward trend to values, with a prosperity and a civilization that will put the past to shame. Let us do our lnst and have faith. Victoria' Beiga. Wednesday market' a now record in the history of the British throne and the event was recognized and celebrated throughout the wide extent of the ISritish Empire. ueen Victoria was then wit years and 1C days an occupant of the ISritish throne, beating the longest prev ious reigu by one day. Next year sixty summers will have passed since she suc ceeded her uncle. William IV., ami she herself has eoiiini-ined that tho celebra tion of the length of her rule shall In? postponed until the even number of years shall lie rounded out next summer. The day of her birth. May 21, when she will lie 7s, the date of her accession, June 'J, ami the date of her coronation, June 'Js, coma so urar together that the next jubilee, a decade after the celebration of her half .entury of ruling, will embrace all these notable events. of the preceding occupants of the British throne, only throe have sat as long as fifty years, and they were Henry 1 1 L, the oldest son of John, of Magna Charta fame, who reigned almut fifty six years; Edward 1 1 L, al tout fifty, ami George III., who was king for more than fifty-nine years. George III. was b.irn June 4, 17:1s, succeeded to the throne on October Si'i, 17lHI, wheu he was became permanently insane on his third serious attack (111), and died January Jil, IS20, in his kM year. He reigned, therefore, in name at least, from Molier i"i, 17ti0, to January ), lcin, or fifty-nine years, three months and four days. A Kegro Boughly Treated. S.vow 1 1 ill, Md., Septemlnr 2ti. Chris Green, colored, was nearly beaten to death h-re last night by a crowd of indignant citizens. The negro had lieen selling pictures in the town, ami ho spoke in an impudent manner to a woman on the street. She told several persons of the insult. The report spread, and late at night a crowd went to the house where he was stopping, battered down the door ami dragged him out with a rope almut his waist, X desperate attempt was made to lynch him, but this was preven ted. The crowd then began lieating the man with whips and chilis. Dozens of times he was knocked down and trod n I ion. Finally he w as struck by a large club and fell to the gronnd apparently dead. The crowd then dispersed. He became conscious later and crawled out of town. Bryan Givei Up the East Washington, Sept. 24. The branch headquarters here of the liryan Demo cratic National Committee have been closed. The sign over a part of the old Wormely building "Headquarters of Democratic National Committee" will be taken down and the space made va cant by the department of the "regulars" w ill In alloted to the Populists and the Silver league. This is a gloomy ending of an attempt to emphasize the national j character of the Popocratic appeal by j placing the headquarters well into the I "CLemy's country." The Split in Hew York. Brooklyn, Sept. 24. The New York State Convention of the National Democ racy to-night nominated Daniel G. Grif fin, of Watertown, by acclamation, for Governor, Frederick W. Henriehs, of Kings county, for Lieutenant Governor, Spencer Cliutou, of Buffalo, for Judge of the Court of Appeals, and adopted a res olution indorsing the Indianapolis plat form ami ticket. The only name pre sented against Mr. Grillin for Governor was that of Patrick J. Gleason, who mov ed that the nomination of Mr. Grillin be made by acclamation. During the pro ceedings Gen. John M. Palmer, tho Na tional Democratic candidate for Presi dent, up pear til in the hall and was greet ed with great applause. After the nominations had been con cliid.il Gen. Palmer made a speech. He sta 1.i in by saying that a Senator from M issouri said it is tho duty of a Demo crat to first vote the ticket ami then read the platform. He congratulated himself that he was in the presence of Demo crats who first read the platform and then decide whether to vote for the can didates or not. He quoted the case of Illinois as hav ing been prosperous Iwcause the State had never repudiated its debt. He pre dicted that Bryan would lie beaten, and the Populists and the Democrats of the Chicago convention would lie damned to gether, lie added that all the people of this country except the silver mine own ers and the men w ho are di'spc r.itcly in debt, ami desiring to pay their debts in the least jsissible value, are interested in preserving tho present standard of val ues. Pensioners Dying Bapidly. Commissioner of Pensions Murphy, in his annual report on the operations of the Pension Bureau, shows that 4 1,374 new pensioners w ere added and 'S.S72 restored who had been previously dropped, mak ing a total af 41.217. The losses for vari ous reasons aggregated 41, u!:!. The whole number of pensioners on the roll June Is'!, was iCu,tJ7.5. The Commissioner states it may now safely In assured that the roll from this time on will show a steady diminution, unless Congress should enact still more lilnral provisions. The rate of mortality of the pensioners, particularly those w ho served through the war of the rebellion, is rapidly increasing. Disallowances of pensions during the year amounted to 1(7,21, most of them be ing applications for inereas(s. The amount disbursed was f 1'5S,2I l,iHil, a de crease of !,.'! 2,( (no. The amount appropriate! for eiisi.ii payments fl M.mKi.nuu, was found to lie more than sullicieiit. There was at the close of the fiscal year an unexpended balance of SIJ'.hi.imi. The Commissioner dopts she estimates of his predecessor. Judge IK-hren, for ls-ts, namely, fl ln, tHMi.iKxt for pensions and 21,-2,i,nuu for oth er expenses. The act of January r, lsji.!, increasing pensions from s to jl of certain Mexi can veterans whose names were then on the roll, the Commissioner says, does not make any provisons for tho pensions of others whose names might be subsequent ly recorded, and ho recommends that the $12 increase lie granted to all Mexican survivors w ho are totally disabled, and in destitute circumstances. The Commissioner also calls attention to the fact that there is no statute provid ing a pension for the w idows of olli.-crs or soldiers w ho died from causes origi nating iu the service prior to March 4, Wil, during a time of peace. This, he thinks, is an inequality iu the law which should bo lemedied by Congressional ac tion, McKinley Firit Vote. From a Sp,n-h to Fir-l Voters. I recall, young men, my first vote. With what a thrill of pride I exercised for the first time the full prerogative of citizen ship! I havo not realized greater pride since. I felt that I had some part in the government. Tho period and circum stances when I cast my first vote may have made a deeper impression upon m-i than it otherwise would, but I recall it now after thirty-two years with sensa tions of joy and satisfaction. ( Applause. I In the crisis of war, on the very field of eoniliet, my first vote was cast f ,r Abra ham Lincoln. (Great cheering. ) It is to ine a priceless memory. What a glorious privilege to have been permitted to vote fir a candidate for President w hose ser vices to his country in tho greatest peril of its life rank with the services of Wash ington, the father of his country. (Ap plause.) Priceless memory to me that I could vote for the martyr of liberty, the emancipator of racj and the sa iotir of the only free government am mg men. (Great cheering.) Hanna on the Outlook. Chairman Mark A. Hanna, of the Re publican National Committee, arrived in New York Thursday. Mr. Hanna said: "Well, the situation is all right and getting better all the time. The free silver disease is curing itself as the people come to their soln-r secoul thottght. I have no anxiety whatever almut tho result. My stay here will probably extend over ten days. "The sound money advocates are hold ing large meetings regardless of party, and many c iu verts are being made. Wo have over .'Sim speakers talking sound money in Central, Western and North western States. The demand for sound money literature in the Central Western States is large, and I think that it is an excellent sign by w hich to judge the i.leas of the people. "I see no reason to !e discouraged w it li the outlook in the Central Western States." Chairman Hanna will go thoroughly over the work of the campaign in the Southern States before he makes his final departure for Chicag.t, 111., where he is to remain until the close of the battle. The Tyranny of the Desk. We w ill suppose that your occupation is sedentary that you are chained, so to speak to the desk in some counting house, or perhaps to the loom in some vast mill where you are compelled to lalior from morning till night. Sunday is your only day of relaxation. You return h me every evening wearied mentally and bod ily. Your health and strength begin to fail. What will most effottttally rec:i perate your vital energy ? The weight of evidence points to no other conclusion than that IKstetter's Stomach Bitters is your safest, most reliable sheet anchor, I'se it persistently, and your system will soon regain its pristine vigor. Every function will receive a healthful impulse. There is no remedy to equal the Bitters for nervousness ami want of sleep, dys pepsia, constipation and biliousness. D averts ami remedies all forms of malarial disease, and is a preventive of rheuma tism and neuralgia. A Plague of Bugs. Chicaoo, Sept. 2.S. A swarm of black lieetles has descended upon this city, en tirely eclipsing all previous plagues of sand tlies which have visited the place. The creatures were about one and one half inches long and oval in shape. They fell almost in showers iu some of the most brilliantly lighted streets, per ishing by myriads under the wheels of vehicles. They fell so thickly that people could not prevent them from slipping unawares dow u their necks and tho un usual visitation caused much discomfort. It is belived that the bugs belonged to a rare species, as none like them had been seen lefore. The Evidence. A good many people in Somerset nro nsing the Ci ndcrella Range, which is the the liest evi.lenee of its merits. S.ld and guaranteed by Jas. B IIei.M:i:n vi r. Somerset, Pa. i Couldn't Dig the Woman Oat. Wll.l.lAMsiMitT, Pa,, Sept. 2.I. A force of telegraph linemen were outwitted by a determined woman here to-day. The men were out to change the location of a pole that stood on the premises of Mrs. Charles Gibson, wheu Mrs. Gibson enter ed a protest. When the men had dug the hole for the pole Mrs. GilMon slid in to the hole, and no amount of coaxing or threatening could get her out. A policeman was called, but th wis man was on her own property, and was in nowise disturbing the peace, so the officer could not molest her. The liue men attempted to frighten her out by digging about her with heavy bars; but Mrs. Gibson remained (inn and the men went away without accomplishing the work of moving the pole. After the men had gone Mrs. Gibson hurried into her garden and uprooted a small plum tree. This she planted on the spot where the new pole was to In plats eL A city ordinance provides that no tree or shrub shall In despoiled by corjio ratioiis in the erection of poles, ami thus it looks as though Mrs. Gdison would win. The secret of happiness, "Keep your liver right." Burdock Blood Bitters is nature's remedy for complaints of the liver or Imwels. Stung to Death by Beet. A despatch from Milan, Michigan, says that James Morrells engaged in a desper ate bat lie with liecs on Thursday of last week ami was stung to death. In driving past his hives one of the wheels of tho wagon struck the platform, and the hive were overturned. The horses ran away when the liees attacked them, and Morrell was thrown out. Although a robust man, he w as powerless against the insects. Heliatlled with them fir some time but at last, overcome by their stings, sank to the ground unconscious, lie was removed to his home and every ell'ort made to save him, but ho dint in side of an hour, the doctors say, from the result of the imisoii inoculated by the stings of the bees. It Silver, Why Not Potatoes 1 From the New York Tribune. When tho Government fixes the price of silver at $l.2!an ounce, that will fix the price throughout the world. W. J. Bryan. Let's have the Government fix the price of potatoes at a bushel. Then every one who owns a Milalo patch w ill be as well oil as though he owned a gold mine. They Wish to Keep Eim at Home. Frum the Chicago Times-!!. -raid. A rn-eiit io!l of the precinct in which Y. J. Bryan resides at Lincoln Neb., gives the following result (there are 2f2 legal voters in the precinct): McKinley isur- - liryan ,;i Itelltlev, I'o.hi'.itlonUt H iHMll.tlul u News Items. The Department of Agriculture is send ing out a bulletin relative to butter colors to the farmers and dairymen of the State. The document was prepared by State Chemist CiM-hran, of West Chester, w ho recommends that the use of coloring mat ters In: prohibited until their iiillucnee on tho human organs has lieen investi gated. Everylio.lv will want to vote this fall aud everybody who wants to vote must lie qualified. Therefore pay your taxes. They must be paid at least thirty days liefore election or, prior to October 'S. It is necessary to have paid a State or Coun ty tax within two years, and those who owe should be sure and pay them before OctolnT-J. Don't neglect this. Only !ki 1 persons in I.um.iio i, a.i-onling to medical authority, die from old age, while l,2'i succumb P gout, is,4i.im measles, 2,7ict to apoplexj", 7,nou to erysip elas, 7,.ln to consumption, 4s,(i to scarlet fever, 2"i.o K t.) w hooping , nigh, :: 1.1O1 to typhoid an 1 'yphus and 7,uoi to rheum 1 tism. The averages vary according to lo cality, but these are considered pretty ac curate as regards the population of the globe as a whole. Mem tiers of the Nansen expedition sav that so tinil did they liecomo of seeing the same faces and hearing the same voics day after day in the tmirse of the slow drift Northward that in the end a feeling of irritation was produced. At times this irritability Im-amo well nigh insupportable, and tho men would set off on long walks across the ice, each man by himself and carefully avoiding his fellows. The Pittsburg Daily News is just almut six months old. It is a Republican eve ning newspaper of eight pages neatly printed, aud served by mail or carrier at one cent a copy, or J ; a year. The Dai ly News aims to In a paper for the home, and it spares neither labor nor expense to eater to the family circle. It claims to have lieen phenomenally siHvesslul in its eft. r-s. It is the only 1 i tsburg daily with a page devoted entirely to women. If you ha e not seen it you can get a sample of it by mail free of charge. The Only One To Stand the Test Kev. William Copp. whose father was a physician for over fifty years, iu New Jersey, and who himself spent many years preparing for the practice of medicine, but subse quently entered the ministry of the 31. E. Church, writes: "I am glad to testify that I have had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara tions known in the trade, but AYER'S is the only one of them that I could re coin mend as a -Cl- libuul ,inri(ij I L.i,-. given away hundreds of lsittlcs of it, as I consider it the safest as well as the liest to In had." Wm. Copp, I'astor M. E. Church, Jackson, Minn, THZ 0XLY VTOELD S FAIR Sarsaparilla When in doubt, ask for Aver 's Pills mm I 1 tiO. 204 NORTH AVC. ALLEGHENY. Good Place to Fit For College or Business. Send For Descriptive CuUttogue. Quinn's Big Store ! We Are Showing a Splendid Line of NEW FALL DRESS GOODS Cln Black and Colors. ONTAINIXO Covert Cloth, Two-toned Twil's, honeycomb and canvas weave plain and rough shaggy surfaces, in combination of silk and wool, in two ol ors, giving the g.ods an irridescent effect. Two and three-toned Check Sui t ings. Many of the new goods are woven in two and three colors, pivintr & chameleon effect, which is very pretty. These goods are entirely different from any in the city. Prices are away lielow those of last season. ' Separated Eighty Tear. Ai.itAiN, Mich., Sept. 2. Charles Ben nett Mini his sister, Mrs. Lm y T.w nseiid, were united to-day after a separation of Hi years, In lH'i, Bennett's step-mother ordered him out ot her house in a small New York village ami he started away on a career of adventure, finally settling in Monroe, this state, as a retired sea captain. He lost all track tr his family until last week. His sister, it happened, married and came West, settling down at Clayton. Mich. A newspaper item, giving a sketch of the old captain's lile attraet.il the sister's attention, ami a mutual friend was the means of bringing the aged couple together after so many years. Blood rieans sound health. With pare, rieh, healthy blood, the stomach aud di gestive organs w ill bo vigorous, and there wi'J be no dyspcjnsia. Rheumatism and Neuralgia will lie unknown. Scrofula and iiiilt Rheum w ill diaap-iear. With pure Y'oiir nerves will lie strong, nnd yourc leep Found, sweet and refreshing. II.hkFs ;tr-wqiri!!i makes pure blood. That is why it cures 30 many liseas-s. That is why so ninny thousands tpke it to cure disease, retain good health and prevent eickness aud suffering. la.Locmbcr n n hOO M mm ir Sarsaparilla Is the One True lilnod Purifier. $1; six for $5. II ! fMf cure Ijvt F!s; easy to flOOU S I'lIlS take, easy to bin-rale. JM. ijos. Home & Co. The Way Mail Orders are coming in for the new a.!vooI tufted suitings there must b.. extra merit in them we claim that there is, but would rather have an expression from you, individu ally. Will you write our Mail order Depart ment for samples of these extraordinary values in newest, up-t .-date styles in DRESS GOODS and St' ITI M is? Sti to "ill inches wide, .'Joe, "iiic and Soc yd. All we ask is fair investigation and mi unbiased verdict. Also send name and address for Ntw Catalogue out of prss this w eek. If yt 11 come to the Great Exposition don't fail to visit The Great Dry Go.ds Store, right on your way to Exposition Buildings. PENN AVE. & FIFTH ST., PITTSBURG, PA. Most likely you an going to make a trip to the Western l'cinisylvania Exposition the musical ami art features, as well as the commercial ami iiiaiiufaetiiig exhibits arc unusually attractive this year, and you'll want to se them it will pay you to include this store in your visit come ami inspect the new goods learn prices ami see if 'his small profit business isn't done in a way that concerns your self interest. A wonderful collection ot Dress Goods silks, black goods, novelty woolens,' coats, jackets, suits, here : all goods you can dejicnd on as to style, tjuality and price least price for the kinds. Meanwhile send for samples of thtsc extraordinary values : Kim all-wool Clack Henrietta ! hit lies wide ('.!le most wide Henriet tas are only 4-U inches wide these are not only extra wide, but such splendid weight, finish ami luster as has always U-eii a dollar a yard. Kim Imported lilack Ser'c, -"i inch es wide, 4('c. Kine Novelty Woolens, 4s ami "hi inches wide -". Scotch cfli-cts, silk overshot novelties, Imurettes fine fab rics made to sell for a dollar or more on sonic there's the difference Ix twecii S and il.'St to 1? saved. Never hail such tine choice mixtures to sell at -'IT', and 'Hie a yard as now nice stylish things that at such prices prove there's small profit selling no other kind U'ing done here. You oujiht to make sure that we have your name and add ri-ss fur sending the new Catalogue to ready soon brimful of facts alsmt g.xids ami price that will be to your advantage free, postpaid, if you ask for it. BOGGS & BUHL Allegheny, Pa. JAMES QU1NN. Johnstown, Pa. EVERY DAY Brings Something- Ney A Riding or Walking Spring Tooth Ilarr-.v.. - Xo drug-g-mS of frame on the :ruuA. Tin; lightr.-t -!. . itself of tra.-li a.--fa.sily a.s a l;ay rakt. llm a u man on a..- others do without a !;.'!. CALL AND SEE IT. WE GUARANTEE IT T!!Z EEST !; IN THE WORLD. !.: Sold 011 Tria l J TT V Somerset, Pa. s nn-FPrv r.. J ' 2 ITIT r-7? bV- .s 1847. When you are Dry ,. ." " ' ' ' : . r TPvi --V' '"' W,-r.'fc1i-s - - . ,' Er s.. :-t V., ICE COLD i SODA. - AL - Pure Drugs and Chcm-j Fine Imported ti Dv icals. I mestic Cigars. G. VV. BEDFORD, Manager. TOtrice of pr. S. M. p, U iii rear of Store, w here !i" will w v.: uo . .. Saturday of each wc,-:.. IFURNITBIRr I 1 g Oar StockTs Tarrt. A thing to be considered sr In buying Furniture. js PKIOK is Kenerally hehl to t.c of the tlrst iiiip. rt ir.. c. ST should he the last. If you lmy for quality you j-:iy ac.s-ni;i : r: If on buy for price you get w hat you pay for. 2 ChaniWr Siits. S.di.1 uk and fherrv, i-ontainiiiK six i.ie.es, s-j".. J-ji. t s. Aiiti.,uc Oak Suits, : : :" : : : : s... . . 5 Parlor Suits. ::::::: f- '' Nitlelsiards, SIid tak, : : :::": sin", su! 'hairs, Itetls, Springs, Mattresses and all other kinds of Furniture at J- lowest price. g FIGURE : : : : : Covers a nuiltitiiile of sins, hut it isn't iieccssaiy to h.-;v t! c oid'-siraMe features to secure figure. I'staMisli In your in JJ; the detail if grades, then you are ready for price. C. H. Coffroth, g 605 M?tn Cross Street, raw luuuulumm V. In Dont-Ihin M m ! Ide -s. i 104 z i ? out. 1 ion r; I: : iu 3 1 w CA' 5 I il ir ui lll.lt o o-i. GOOD RESULTS, t o : 1 1 r . -1 -1 1 i'i'ij An- t: r- -;. J -i fs" r.. !.. .llirs.l :i e i ! I- n . . 1 . t r Tn T ' I I ! v . 1 . - i J. B. Ho!derh: SOMERSET. - Carbon G;:!:-, I .s 1 Absolutely Air f Et": 'j' '- i e P. -si : ' j we I tr.a An Entirely Ne s a: Stove mad n ih.- F. A. SCHELL. f Somerse:. Pa. 1896. LSTC3-. Ail Unsnr past'd Glass of ,-ssr;A ':',:. Ji-.V-' ' . 1 ... "x. O - 3 -a SOMERSET, PA Ti-. 1 ji ;l t f wen f ir I city i v. i Ki'i I V j 5 irnjb : vlre. t eif- ere' T f 0 ' I Ion 1 n. s ! Ac l 1 i iie ; o( ; er S t; Ut t ab f f pa S th, ao, fai kr f I 1"! j i I St; I CO I l: ; co I tir W: I y I j 1 H iu t co I Ct; I tu r U t I hi 1 tr rt w C b a: P i fr U i il e: t: 2 11 t: t- y h o is
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