Somerset Herald
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ti SCULU Editor nd Proprietor.
S.KSOAY.
... K-tolwr T, 1H96
JBLICAN nation alticket
President,
II.l.IAM McKlSLEY, of Ohio.
Vie President,
i r A. Hoiiait, of New Jersey.
'JBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Congresmen-at- Large.
ti.rn A t;nw, of ?uquchnna.
ivtvrM. A. liAVtsroBT.of Erie.
EMton-at-Large.
J.cph Wharton, riiilixielpliia.
Alexander E. ltton. Clearrk-ld.
William Witlierow, Allegheny.
IV.er L. KiiiiixTly. Morccr.
District Elector.
J. s. Prn
.... 1? H.rL-.
I . Henry". Prevort
' J It llniwn.
,i,k H. HeiulKy. I. rn-n. 11.
..,.,!:. I M.-verviK. ". Hniwn Miller.
in. M l:iL-!.Trt.
-Mi H Hu.l.l.-Il
i.iium K. rSiilvy.
iiii Knir..
nrv I.. Ji!inon.
illlH. IjUell.
. . Warren.
W. Willi.-.
;rr;vi Kill.
W. Milier.
11. It. H.mhihicii.
Ji. iieonie T. Swauk.
A. '-. Whit'.
Win. N. Iliindolph.
Zi. K. Wertlieimer.
:U. Josiah tiieer.
2T,. Hu'd E. Abraras.
jh. ljolnr Nol-l.
T William solinnr.
. Jo. C. Campbell.
CONoKKSS.
I. J. Kom-:r, of Somerset Bor.
eel to division .f 1lie I list list Conference.
ivwl llltl Y.
II. Mii.i.kk, of Juemahoning Twp.
W. II. Saxxkr, of Somerset iMir.
Askm'IATK Jt'lK'K.
K-. J. Hi.a k, f McycrsJale Ikr.
MIKRIKF.
!. II. Hartzcll, of Kockwooa isor.
I'KoTIIONoTARY.
II. F. Rarkos, of Somerset Bor.
KKiilMKR A RKCOKIIKR.
J. M. Covkr, or Jenner Twp.
TKKA-IRKR.
Ww. Wintkks of Somerset Twp.
CorXTY I-OVMISSKIXKR.
;i.i. F. Kimmki, of Milf.inl Twp.
. aki'.iki. ;kii, of Somerset Twp.
pooll WKKiTOR.
IahiiiVi'. I'ws, of summit iwp.
AIMTORS.
. . i-
i Villi i;ilOAlS oi Wiiiirrnc i'".
. ISowmax, of Urothersvalley Twp.
he New York World says the solid
th is broken at last, and that West
.'inia is sure to go for McKinley.
m Wats'is, the Populist candidate
Yi.-e President, has made a tour of
doubtful Southern and Western
es, and reports Bryan's chances as
btful.
"n at was once knowu as the Mass-u-s-tts
1 K-niocracv is now split into
separate parts; this is the kind of
iiiony that is likely to prevail in
nv other Slates.
knatok Tki.i.kk and his brother
n a b; silver mine. It is not in op-
lion, but he is stumping the country
a sroverniiieiital fiat that would con-
i the mine into a money maker.
;"iie silver dollars coined last month
the Tinted Slates agafegated 2,050,
'. Candidate Bryan used about that
ml t of words during August to
ive that silver wa assassinated twen
three years ago.
1 x I M.iMHs a canvass of the vote of
vkingnien employed in mills, facto-
s and railroad shops in niueteen
wtis sliows mat out oi a wiuu oi i,-
there were 10,!17 for McKinley,
11 for P.rvan, and :ts4 for Palmer.
Mr. I.kvax is ou record as a free
;t'ler, and he shows no disKsition to
i cde from that position. Theeountry
had a little exjierienoe with partial
e iraile. wiilcu an oi jir. jryau s
. i. i, r .
ie savin is aooui iree silver win uui
, ... r : , : T 1 ...
use the jieople to forget.
The Republican majority in the last
State elect ion in Kansas was 30,000, in
i.A-niUI Ky n,.""i. in .Huiuauu in
. . i t. j i : -4r I.. I iij i-- ;
Michigan M-i,."'-' in Minnesota (0,01S,
n Ohio !i,i22, in Wisconsin .VK), m
owa -Vi,tKi, iu Indiana, 40,000, and
; Ilinoisl 2!,(Ni0. These are some of the
-called "doubtful'' States.
Fkke silver advocates tell the people
hat the reason a Mexican dollar, con-
aiuiii-j more silver than ours, is worth
i-re only fifty-three cents, is that "the
Mexican dollar is not a legal tender in
this country." Hut it is a legal tender
in Mexico, and there it will buy only
half as much iu the stores and markets
i a Juo-cciit American dollar will buy
ust across the river. This is one of the
'.u ts that the advocate dodges.
The amount paid out by the ( Jovern
incut in jn-nsions during the last fiscal
year was, as we learn from the report
-f the Commissioner of Pensions, Jl.'W,
:.! l.itoo. If free silver should triumph,
f very one of these jH-nsions would be
paid in debased dollars dollars worth
i-iilv a trifle' more than half a dollar
each. What do the pensioners, and
jM-ople who believe iu treating the jx-n
-iouers fairly and honorably, think of
Mich a pros;iect?
I r was promised m '"'"ral terms by
leading men inter.-.! in the questions
at issue, says the Ljucas.er Inquirer,
that this campaign should lie one of
.-'ideation. It has proved so iu a re
markable degree and i more respect
t iaii was anticipated. Mr. Bryan, him
s. If, has had an oppr-.H.ity to learn a
reat deal, and it is to lie hojied lie lias
profited by it Mr. McMiuiey has given
evidence that lie is learning many.
Things, and his daily utterances show
that he is keeping abreast of events and
has a mind capable of mastering the
jiroblems that are confronting tiiis and
:lier nations. But the greatest work
of this campaign lias lieeu the educa
tion of the jieople the voters of the
nation, on the various .i'i:i :is that
are up for derision by tm-ir votes.
.Never ince isiii lias mere iieen so
much done in the way of giving inform
lit ion to the jieople, and the work goes
trravely ou.
Keen now the effects of this educa
tion of the masses is shown iu a marked
iegrw. The great Iast, north of the
Potomac, has been practically alwn
loned by the Bryan fo!lors. New
Iuglaud w solid for Mciviun-y and
Iiouest money. New York, Pennsyl
vania aud New Jersey are equally cer
C tin, and Ohio will greet her favorite
iu with an overwhelming majority.
In the S.itli, Delaware, Maryland and
West Yirgiiiia will swell the IicHil.'ien
majority, and there is small doula i.iat
Kentucky will keep them cou.'pauy.
But the great middle Wt i where
the battle rages most fiercHy. Here
the campaign of education is getting ia
its work most royally. In the begin
ning, Illinois, I-.wa, Indiana, Minne
ota and Michigan were iu doubt. On
the three former uot a shadow of un
certainty now rest. As certain as the
un shines they will east their vote for
the Ohio inau; lut the good work still
vontiiiues, for it is intended to make
the majorities specially emphatic. Min
mmoU aud Michigan will also vote for
IcKiuky, but in these State the free
uilver disease has been partie-iWIj vir-
X
ulent, anl the recovery is slower. The
Middle Went is the field where the Bry
anitea will fight longest and most des
perately. They will not give them up,
for in doing that they give up me ngni.
Rrvan. bimxelf. is fighting with desper
ation, but his contest is so unsKiuuiiy
managed that it dot- his cause more
harm than goo.L Nothing could so
much have strengthened his opponent!
as the words of unwisdom he has ut
tered on his eastern tour. Every effort
he has made to obtain Micress has but
led him further and further away
from it.
The final result is as plain as any-
f liimr in the future can lie- The vic
tory fr McKinley will le thorough and
r-.rlr.ielii.ie- It will settle onee and
for ever the question of the free coin
age of silver and place our currency on
a broad and solid foundation that will
bring stability to business and genuine
prosperity to the country.
A Silver Fallacy Exposed.
The Brvanites have met with a serious
diaer in the advance in the price or
liot ami the decline in the value or
silver. No assertion, argument or device
has done so much to help the silver mine
owners as the charts they have distritmt-
1 to fanners, makinff it appear that the
nrin of w heat is governed by the price
nf silver. The assertion is false, lull
truth is slow in overtaking falsehood in
this matter.
In a little over thirty days w heat ad
vanced approximately 13 cents a bushel.
At the same time silver declined. The
vnuiiercial rtrice of liar silver in New
York was (J7 cents an ounce on Septem
1er 4. .tin. :it the end of the month
it was 6."i, a considerable decline. And
all that time w heat was advancing. This
thing has often happened, but many
farmei-s do not seem to lie aware or the
fact. The object lesson, right in the heat
of the campaign, can not fail to be effect
ive.
The advance in the price of wheat and
dis-linein the value r silver have lecn
entirely due to the law of supply and de
mand. Theliad condition of the wheat
rops in India and Argentina has led to
an increased demand for wheat from the
United States. That sent the price up.
just as the enormous increase in the pro
duction of wheat and decreased coiisump
tion in rexnt years sent the price down.
The price of wheat at the farms in the
West has not declined since Is:J in any
thing like the proportion represented to
the fanners. In the years l71-3 the crops
of wheat w ere short and the speculation
was unprecedented. Prices were illegit
imately high. The collapse came with
the panic of 1S73. The average price of
wheat on the farm in Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in lsiW
was AO cents a bushel. In 12 the price
was (4 cents in the depreciated paper cur
rency ; in 171, so cents ; lSiS, cents ; in
lsst, luti cents; in lsst, o0 cents, and in
lni 43 cents.
The decline in the cost of transporta
tion has made a greater difference in the
price in New York city. The average
difference lietween the price of heat on
the farm in the West and iu New York
was alxmt 70 cents in 1-sit, and i'
nts iu lsui That saving in transporta
tion by improved railroad methods ac
counts for a large reduction in the price.
Sini-e l.sfd the cost of transportation has
declined s4.6 per cent., while the decline
in silver lias l-eeu about M per cent.
Wheat fell 40 per cent, between 172 and
STS, w hile silver declined only 17 per
cent.; wheat then rose V- per cent iy
lssl, while silver rose a fraction over 3
percent; then wheat fell about .Viper
cent, to 14, while silver fell only 4.3 per
ceut ; wheat rose 77 per cent by lssi, and
silver at the same time fell over 14 per
cent, and so on, showing that there is no
relation whatever lietween the price of
silver and the price of wheat.
Corn, oats and other crops are more lm
portant to the farmer than his wheat.
The average price per bushel of all grain
in the West in 18.C! was 3!i cents a bushel
and in 11 it w as 40 cents. The value of
wheat on farms west of the Mississippi
in lstili was in all commodities at New
York alsiut r9.i. In it was ii3 per
cent. In both the East and the West a
bushel or wheat would buy more or other
commodities in IS!6 than in ls72orin
ISiiO. This demonstrates the Tolly and
falsehood in the Popocratic argument
about wheat
The statistics show that nearly 72 per
cent or the rarmers own their own farms
without encumbrance, and the liens on
the remaining farms are only 3.n.Y per
cent, of their value. The grain farmers
are therefore creditors and uot debtors,
and reducing the value ol the dollars
one-half, or "from 2 cents to I DO cents,'
as Mr. Brvan has stated the proposition,
will ouly injure the farmer, as well as the
people in general. Philadelphia Press
Repudiation, Nullification, Eevolntion.
From a piwh by li-m-r.il U. V. Tr.icy.
The Chicago platform is loaded with
dynamite. It declares for repudiation.
nullification and revolution. To pro
nouns fifty cents' worth of silver to te a
dollar, and to make that a legal tender
for the payment of the public debt, is re
pudiation. To resolve not to enforce the
laws of Comrress when resisted by vio
lence and insurrection, without the con
sent of the Coventor of the State, is nul
lification. To reorganize the Supreme
Court so as to make it the registrar of the
decrees of a political caucus is revolution
Call it a Forffery.
Kroui the "Financial XewV'Scpt 11.
In our issue or August 13 we t-iok occa
sion to refer to the circulation in the
American newspapers of an article enti
tled -The !rip on Sold," purporting to
lie an extra-t from the Financial News of
March 11. and we stated that no such
article had ever appeared in this journal.
As eertaiu American papers continue to
reprint this article, crediting it to the Fi
nancial News, we have again to warn
our readers and our Amcriran .otitemiio-
raries that it is a rorgery, and its whole
tenor is entirely oniiosed to the views w e
have always taken or the effect of free sil
ver legislation in the I'nitel States.
Hall's Keasoa far Bolting.
I'nited Slates District Attorney Harry
AH in Hall has formally declined the
hemocratic nomination for presidential
elector in the Twenty-eighth Congress
ional district He has written a letter to
State Chairman John M. (Sannan stating
the reasons why he cannot support Bry
au or the Chicago platform, and announc
ing that he will vote lor McKinley.
Among other things he says: "This cam
paign is not between the Republican par
ty upon the oue side and the Democratic
party on the other, as we have heretofore
understood the terms. It is a liattln in
v.l:i-h the forces of law, social order and
pa;rit-i i-o are arrayed against those of
anarchy, dishonesty and disorder.
Killing DUeued Cattle.
i he law under which cattle having a
contagious disease are condemned, killed
; a -1-1 iaid for has tieen upon the statute
ls.iks of the State for quite a uumlier oi
years, and appropriated only $l,ttK per
year for the purpose. Of recent years the
amount stated proved to be too small, so
the last legislature removed the limit of
f !, and now all cattle, and horses aud
mules as well, coming under the bead or
''dangerous, contagious or infe4ious dis-
asti," no matter if they aggregate au
expense or ?10,(W per year, are paid for.
This law is in force since June I, ls:i.. It
might be added that under the old law
the State paid $20 for a cow, no difference
whether a common or registered animal.
Coder the late law the highest price the
State will allow for a common cow is tS
and for a registered one not over $.VL
For a horse or mule the sum allowed is
not over f Ml, and for a standard-bred, reg
istered or imported horse the Slate does
not allow over 50 per cent of the apprais
ed value of any such animal.
IHTO THE JAWS OF DEATH.
Thrilline Story of the Runaway Traia at I
Sand Patch Tunnel.
One of the worst and most expensive
freight wrecks in the history of the Bal
timore V. Ohio Railroad occurred shortly
after 12 o'clock Thursday night, near
rhilson Siding, eight miles east of Sand
Patch tunnel. Fast frciRht train No. 74
was scheduled to meet west-bound
freight No. at the siding. Sbortiy
after starting down the grade the east
bound crew lost control ot their train and
in a moment were chasing down the
steep grade at the rate of 70 miles an
I
hour. The two trains came together
w ith an awful crash and loaded freight
cars were piled fifty feet high.
At !' o'clock Friday evening four un
known tramps had lcen taken out of the
Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Philson
station. Tramim who are ikiw hi iiii-
Western Maryland hospital say that at
least 15 more are buried in the debris.
They were riding in the car ahead or the
one in which the injured tramps were.
and nothing has been seen or heard from
them since the wreck occurred.
The injured trainmen, none of whom
are seriously hurt, were taken to their
homes in Connellsville Friday evening.
Tucy are W. J. Zane, engineer, ana
Thomas Owens, fireman, of east-bound
train 74. and Brakemau John Cornell.
Their story of the runaway train ana the
wreck is thrilling.
The train left Sand Patch shortly after i
midnight Sixteen cars next the engine
were equipped with air brakes. Before
starting into the tunnel the hand brakes
on three cars on the rear vend were set
Two more were set after the brakeinen
noticed that their train was getting lie
yond control. By this time the east end
of the tunnel had been reached, and En
gineer .ane had the wheels of his engine
and Wears back of him locked dead with
air. The heavily loaded cars had attain-
such frightful velocity, however, that it
was impossible to check their speed ou
the wet rails. The braketnen and Con
ductor J. J. Harhaugh clung to the tops
of the cars making their way towards
the rear end on all fours. Seeing that it
was impossible to save the train. Flag
man Itiis (ieigor cut off the caboose two
miles west of Bowman station. Conduc
tor Harliaugh and Brakeman l. J. Mick
ey uncoupled the three cars next to the
calxHise and slopped them. Brakemau
Cornell stuck to his post on the front end
of the train until the light in his lantern
went out Then he went back over the
tram with Fireman Owens, the col
lision came I efore they had gone two car
lengths.
F.ngineer Zane hung to the steps of his
engine for Tour miles. He said that he
had fully made np his mind to jump at
Bowman station, but his heart failed him
and he climbed back up in the cab, re
signed to meet what he thought was cer
tain death.
Bowman was the passing point for
train 74 with west-bound train 9i Engi
neer Zane knew that he was sure to crash
into the ponderous engine hauling No.
i5 up the mountain within a few seconds.
nd he hung to the whistle lever until he
saw the glimmer of its headlight He
scrambled lck over the tender aud reach
ed the first box car before the two engines
came together. He knew nothing after
that until Friday morning. Brakeman
Cornell and Fireman Owens were like
wise hurled from the top of a car over a
fill to the left of the track some 20 feet
high. Both were severely cut and bruis
ed, but managed to get among the wreck
ed ears first and help out the injured.
When the two trains met the force of
the collision sent the east-bound engine
ploughing through the west-bound train
) yards. The main track and the sid
ing for that distance were torn up as
though dynamite had been exploded
every root or the way. Engineer Oeorge
Kauffman, or No. Jti, jumped as soon as
possible after he saw the headlight or
the other engine. A mile lielow he
heard the screaming of the whistle and
the roar of the runaway train and revers
ed his engine. His fireman, William
Shawlis. jumped just as the two engines
came together. He was found uncon
scious in a field yards away from the
tracks. The only thing Shawlis remem-
liers is seeing the approaching headlight
and his impulse to jump. Not a vestige
of the two engines remain together.
Immediately following the collision an
explosion occurred. Several cars on
train 74 were loaded with flour. The
supposition is that it was the fl.wr dust
that explxl"d. The report awoke the
residents of Philson station and sent up a
cloud or milky whiteness.
The crie of the injured tramps attract
ed the attention of the trainmen as soon
as they regained their presence of mind,
i ne liody was recovered at daybreak
Thursday, and since then three more
have been found, one of them a colored
man. There was nothing on their liodies
to identify them.
The tramps in the Cunjlierland hospi
tal state positively that they know r 15
men who were be-iling their way over
the mountain on train 71. Brakeman
Cornell is also positive that a large num
ber were alioard the train. They were
in a box car atMit the middle or the
train, and had the d.ior fastened on the
inside to keep nut the cold. I'ntil all the
debris is cleared up it will le impossible
to tell whether these escaped injury and
left the scene ia the excitement that fol
lowed. Vice President Injured.
Br ri.inoton. Ia., net. 1. A very ex
citing incident marked the demonstra
tion hereto-day, held in commemoration
or the semi-centennial of Iowa's State
hood, in which Yice President Stevenson
and others made narrow escapes from
death, and several prominent persons
were seriously hurt
After the parade had covered about
half of the line of march. Governor
Pram-is Drake and M iff, Yice President
Stevenson and all of t 11 1 St ita ami local
officers were conJiK-tad to a reviewing
stand. Scarcely wore they seated when
the stand gave way with a crash, and
the entire Ktructure went to the ground,
a mass of broken timbers. Women
fainted, and great confusion at once
reign ecL
Governor Drake a:id Yice President
Sievenson were on the front tier of seau
and were thrown backward upon the
others, and thus' escaped fatal injury, but
they were, nevertheless, badly shaken up
and considerably bruised.
Spilled the Coffee ia the Spring.
EniTou Hkuai.ii:
In a recent article heuled "Coffee
Spring, you say "Inquiry among our
older citizens failed to elicit any informa
tion as to how thus spring acquired its
name."
I have it from my grandmother Win
ters, with whom I lived when she kept
toll-gate east of Somerset. Henry Schnei
der, son of Adam, married a lady in
Mtryland, near lVsmeslKirough. Some
of his neighliors moved west and neces
sirily had to pass through Somerset
He requested them to slop with his fath
er. There were four wagons in the train,
some from Funkstown and some from
Cloarspring; the family from the latter
place were schoolmate of my father.
We lived at the Fox place and they con
cluded to tarry a few days with us and
camped at the "Coffee Spring." One of
the women prepared to brown some
coffee while in camp and when passing
from the wagon to the fire by the spring
she tripped and landed the skillet and
coffee in the water, and for a long time
thereafter the green coffee bubbled up
with the sand. From that time forward
the place has been known as "Coffee
Spring." The lady's name was New
comer. Yours truly,
D. K. Shaver.
Amish, Ia., Sept "'Ah.
"Burdock Blood Bitters entirely cured
me of a terrible breaking out all over my
liody. It is a wonderful medicine."
Miss Julia El bridge. Box 35, West Cora-
well, Conu.
COKPtJLSOBT DISHOKESTT.
Benjamin Harmon T1U How reopia wouio
ai aiai iiiianani ij w . i j . w
Elected.
In the October number of the "Forain"
Benjamin Harrison, writing upon "Com
pulsory IHshonesty " says:
"The free silver leaders do not seem to
me to deny what their opponents assert
namely, that the tree coinage of silver at
the ratio of 15 to 1 will, if the relative
commercial value of gold and silver re
mains uuchanged, wipe out about one
half of every existing promise to pay
money; that every promissory note, bond
saving deposit, Iwnk deposit, building as
sociation certificate, life insurance policy,
pension, salary and wage contnwt will lie
alb'Cted precisely as if note, bond, certif
icate, deosit lunik, mn tract, or pension
certificate had Iieen surrendered for a
new one in which was written one-half
the amount of the old. "How much ow
est thou unto my Ixird?" and he said:
"A hundred measures of oil." And he
said unto him: "Take thy bill, and sit
down quickly, and write fifty."
"A Northwestern Senator told me,
when the silver debate was on in the
Senate in HO ftl, that a Southern Senat
or had said to him: 'I do not want you to
think that I am a fool. I know that the
free coinage of silver will scale the debts
that my people owe and that's what we
want. We are poor and in del.' The
Senator thus addressed replied: 'Well, I
think you have saved your intellectual
ntesrjtyt but at the oust of your moral
integrity.' When Senator Hill, of New-
York, in the Chicago convention, pressed
this objection to free coinage aud Senator
Yilas, of Wisconsin, declared that free
coinage was'robbery, Mr. Bryan, in a
speeeh that won him the nomination for
the Presidency, had only this to say in
reply :
",'But it he means to say that we can
not change our monetary system without
protecting those who have loaned mon
ey before the change was made, I w ant
to ask him where, in law or in morals, he
can find authority for not protecting the
debtors when the act of 1.S73 w as passed.
but now insists that we must protect the
creditors?'
"It is the supposed injury to the debt
ors of 1S73 that Mr. Bryan proposes to re
coup from the creditors of 1800. He takes
no account of the fact that the debtor and
creditor classes are not fixed classes in
this country; that the debtor of 173 may
be the creditor of Hll; and that the conn
ter claim pleaded in behalf of the debtors
of lsT-'J, would be levied on their own
goods in considerable part, and be paid t?
the men who are supposed to have been
despoiled in 1S73. The only bonds that
run 23 years are railroad and other corpo
rate bonds. Farm mortgages rarely run
more than five years. The railroads the
lianks, the large corporations, and the
I'nited States are the great debtors of
IS73, who are still the debtor class; aud
among their creditors are the thrifty poor,
the widow, the orphan and the disabled
veteran. The proposition is that these
great debtors shall now be permitted to
discharge their obligations in dollars
worth one-hair the dollar now in use.
must qualify that statement; but it Is not
that they shall be permitted, but comjiell-
eit to pay in the deliased dollar. Dishon
esty is not made optional, but compulso
ry; Tor while the U nited States must re
ceive its taxes and custom dues, and the
banks their loans, in the new dollar, they
cannot pay in the old. And more than
all this we are promised legislation that
shall prohibit us from promising to pay
in cold the cold we have borrowed. If
the debtor is too honest to set up the de
fence. I suppose the court will be re
quired to apHiint a guardian ad litem to
file the plea for him.
"Only one chance of escape is offered to
us from the conclusion that one of the
great historical parties of this country is
now making a campaign for the repudia
tion or one-hair or all the indebtedness of
the country national, corporate and in
dividualand that is found in the mig
gest ion that free coinage will raise the
value of silver sufficiently to make the
silver dollar the commercial equivalent
of the gold dollar. This suggestion was
put forth when Mr. Bryan was in some
measure under the influence of that con
servative sense of responsbility which is
usually felt by the man who is propose)
ror the greatest office instituted by the
constitution. But it is not a prjposition
upon which the free silver advocates
agree, I think. It is not put to the front
of the campaign it was not so well
thought of as to appear in the platform
either as a probable result or free coinage
or even as a thing to Ikj desired. To lor-
row an illustration from S. S. Prentiss,
Mr. Bryan uses the suggestion that sit
ver will rise to a parity with gold as
heavy bird of flight uses the limb of a
dead tree for a perch the bird keeps its
wings extend! and in gentle motion
while it tries the strength or the limb.
have n it obierve.l tht Mr. Bryan has
much argued the point Indeed, he hn
Iieen sharply taken to task by friend Tor
making it It destroys the whole silver
program. They say that g ild has appre
ciated ; that the gip between the silver
and g ild d illar h is been wholly caused
by the rise in the value or the gold dollar
th it the silver d ilUr is th?refre the ol
aud true measure of values.
But it is not true, as Mr. Bryan sea-n-
to intimate, that the law of 1S7-I changed
o jr money sUnd ird to the injury of the
debtor class. The silver dollar was drop
ped from our coinage, but it was nut theu
a cheap dollar, but a par dollar; th9
371 grains o( pure silver ia it were a fill
equivalent as bullion of the 21.2i grains
or pure gold contained in the g old dol
lar. It is uot fair then to liken the
ch tnge in our coinage laws made in 1S73
to th it now proposed. The former neilh
er involved dishonesty nor oppression,
In order to make good the charge that the
law of 1ST! wrought tba injurie impute
to it, the assertion is made that the gold
dollar ha appreciated, gine up. Clot
production has increased from 4,dV!,ii7.
ojnees in is. 3 to U,Hil,l'-t ounces in lsiU
and silver from 6','J77,1S7 ounces in 1S7J to
174,7.li,0J) ounce in 11). In view of
these considerations and these figures as
to production, who is wise enough to say
that the gold ha gone up or silver down.
or bow much either metal has varied ?
Aud yet it ha been assumed that the
silver dollar has been a true and stable
me isu re of value, that it has neither gone
up nor gone down since 1M73, and that it
would be honest to return to that stand
ard and settle all contracts by it
"Now how is this to be proved ?" or do
our silver friends think it worth while to
prove anything? This illustration, used
by M r. Bryan, is the only attempt at ar
gil men t I have seen ; If he says a man
able to perform his c intrants should offer
to pay oue dollar per bushel for all the
wheat brought to him, would not the
price of wheat go up to a dollar? But
the United States is not to buy the silver
it only puts a stamp on it and return
it to the owa.r. It is rather a if a miller
should offer to take all the wheat brought
to hiiu to grind into tl inr without charge,
to put each one hundred pound of ths
flour inn a barrel, to stamp on the head
of it : 'Tais i a b irrel of flour, aud to
return it to the owner. How would the
price of wheat, or or flour, ba affected by
that trausactii n ?
"There are many people, I suppose,
who would scorn to take advantage or a
law that allowed them to have a full dis
charge from their debts upot the pay
ment of fifty cant on the dollar, but who
do not feel humiliated by ths snrgoslion
that they shall pay them with a coin
called a dollar, but only worth fifty cents
as compared with the dollar they borrow
ed. It is said to be the dollar the dollar
of the Constitution, and of the Fathers,
and they are beguiled. It is neither
the Constitution does not require Con
gress to coin silver dollars at the ratio of
16 to I, or at any other ratio, or at all.
It confers upon Congress the power to
coin money, regulate the value thereof,
and of foreign coin,' aud neither gold nor
silver i anywhere mentioned in the
Constitution save in
nection prohibit-
iu; the States from doing certain things,
where it says: 'No State shall. .
make anything but gold and silver coin
a tender in payment of debts.' It is not
theold dollar, nor the dollar of our fath
ers; for their dollar was based upon the
then existing commercial ratio between
silver and gold.
"But, in fact, there is no re ison to be-
ieve that silver would appreciate, as the
result of free coinage, to a parity with
gold at the present ratio. AH that is guess
work a guess not so much in the direc-
ion of the desires of the silver people,
mt to allay the feir of those whi drevl
ilver monometallism while still desiring
as large a use of silver as is consistent
with the parity of our gold and silver dol
lars. Two of the lending silver Seuatora
when the Sherman bill was pending were,
I know, much more positive than Mr.
Bryan is now, that the purchase by the
government of 4,."i0i),0n) minces of fine
silver per month would take up the silver
surplus that they said was weighing down
the market prico, and so nuke and keep
our silver dollar at pir with the g ild
liar. Shall we trust these prophets
agaiu to our cost?".
Bryan Will Loie Hi State.
Kepresenative Hainer. of Nebraska, was
at Kepublican headquarters last week.
"I don't want to make any blustering
statements," said Mr. Hainer, "but I
know that I am conservative in saying
that McKinley will get the electoral vote
of my State. There has been a decided
reaction. At first Slate pride entered
very largely into the problem, but the
Nebraska people are not repudiators and
can always be relied uion for their loyal
ty to the welfare of the country. We
shall not have a walk-over, for Nebraska
has become something of a political bat
tlefield in this campaign; every store
window in the cities has a lithograph ei
ther of McKinley or Bryan, but five out
of every six business men, even in Lin
coln, are for sound money.
'The farming classes are all right, de
spite the fact that they have suffered un
der a great prostration of business and
three successive crop failures. Under
such provocation not many States would
be true to the conservative lines.
'We have not forgotten how one crop
failure caused famine in Russia in lslU,
and how the people of Nebraska got to
gether and fitted out a shipload of provis
ions to relieve the distres in that rich
agricultural country; nor has it been for
gotten that when Congress was asked to
pay for the transportation William J.
Bryan was among those who voted
against the appropriation to seud the ship
across the waters ou its mission of mercy.
You will find, in spite of the confusing
statements made about the result in Ne-
raska. that in the final round-up Ne
braska will be a Kepublican State still.
Kay Vaccinate Pnpilt.
State Superintendent Schaeffer has
prepared a circular on the law relating to
the vaccination of school children. He
says there may be some question as to
the application of the compulsory feature
of the act in the townships, but at the
same time it is advisable for all scIvkiI
lioards to take such measures as may le
necessary to prevent the spread of con
tagious and infectious diseases in the dis
trict over which they have jurisdiction.
School boards have full authority to en
force the vaccination of school children
and to make a compliance with this re
quirement a condition of admission to
the public schools. Dr. Schaeffer says if
contagious diseases are prevalent in the
neighborhood or if there is danger of the
so read of a contazion from contact with
other localities, the director onght to
nrotect the scrw":: The state snperin-
i
tendeut says
ceruiug the v;
dren must be
ors.
W3PS0'
tow Bate Excursion
r
At this period of ti1
more delightful place
than Wopsononock,
of tho Allegheny Moi
above tidewater. WopJ
a magnificent view of
miles around, now made
by theaiitumn-tinted filial
from Point Lookout is not
the Hocky Mountains. ty
north of Aluo.ina a-men I 14 J '
distance of eight miles.
On Saturday, O. sober 17, the Pennsyl
vania It iilroa I Company will run an ex
cursion to this delightful resort, for which
round-trip ticket will lie sold at an ex
ce lingly low rata. A special train will
bu run on the schedule given lielow :
Tim- Kite
Pttsbirz s.'M A. M. Sto
Jo!ni-l.i-l HI W " 1 -'
Upturning leaving Wopsenonork at
5 l P. M., arriving at Altoona at .o.lo P.
M.. slopping for supper; leave Altoona
6 a P. M.. making same stops. Ticket
will permit of stop off at Altoona ou re
turn trip, and will lie good for return
passage until Octolier in. inclusive.
Famine After The Cyclone.
Jacksonville, Fla., O.-t 3. Now tho
horrors of famine are added to the hor
rors of the cyclone's devastation. Thou
sand of people in Alachua, Lafayette
and Levy Counties are starving, and a
special session of the Legislature m ly be
called to relieve the distress. Hundreds
of farmers have lost everything; their
winter's food is wholly gone.
The road are iui;iaable f or wag ins,
and rood will be carried down the Suwa
nee Kiver. The hw bo pho;ih.ita plants
is estimate 1 at JVrJ.oV), and the cedar for
ests of Lafayette County are dtistroj-ed.
The turpentine men are ruined, aud
2o)'l men employed at tho stills are out of
employment Charitable contributions
from other States will certainly lie needed.
The Tyranny of the Desk.
We will 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 labor from
morning till night Sunday is your only
day of relaxation. You return home
every evening wearied mentally and bod
ily. Your health and strength begin to
fail. What will most effectually recu
perate your vital energy ? The weight of
evidence points to no other conclusion
than that Hcstolter's Stomach Bitters is
your safest, most reliable sheet anchor,
I'se it persistently, ami your system will
soon regain its pristine vigor. F-very
function will receive a healthful impulse.
There is no remedy to equal the Bitters
for nervousness and want of sleep, dys
pepsia, constipation and biliousness. It
avert and remedie all forms or malarial
disease, and is a preventive of rheuma
tism and neuralgia.
A Deftrastir Storm.
A storm that originated in the West
Indies swept over the A'lantic coast Tues
day night and Wednesday morning, de
veloping such an intensity that many
millions' worth of property were destroy
ed and a number of lives were lost. At
Savannah the loss will aggregate J1,000,
OtKi and nine people were killed by the
wreckage of the storm. Alexandria, ,Y a.,
felt the full force of the gale, and four fa
talities are reported from that place.
Washington was struck by the wind,
buildings were unroofed and trees by the
thousand blown down. The White House
yard was converted into a devastated for
est, and Wednesday workmen were en
gaged in sawing wood from the uprooted
trees. Kvery street in the capital was
lined with branches and twigs of trees
which have been almost totally ruined.
Baltimore did not feel the full force of
the storm, for beside the rutting off of
telephone .and telegraphic eommnnica-
j tions and delaying of the railnmd tratlic.
but little serious damage was done.
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Kiierable Tet Heroic End of a Hermit's
life.
Ci.kvki.axp, O , Oct 4. The little town
of Hinckley, 21 miles from this city, in
Medina county, was the scene of a grue
some Uealli Saturday, nearly J I years
ago there appeared in Hinckley a strang
er, of whom nothing was known beyond
the name which he gave, Bernard Sher
man, and with him camo a big St Ber
nard dog, which was his inseparable com
panion. Tho stranger took up his abode
in an old hovel which he rented in the
lonesome outskirts of the hamlet. The
living place of the old man gradually le
came surrounded with an air of mystery,
and the place came to be regarded with
superstition and fear. The mysterious
dweller rarely visited the village aud
then only for the necessaries of lift' which
beseemed to have plenty of mouey to
pay for.
The old man had not been seen for a
long time, and an investigation was lie
gun. When the door to the but was
broken iu the old man was found lying
dead, chained to a post, the condition of
the body telling of a terrible struggle,
which the doctors have ascrilied to hy
drophobia. Just outside the hovel was
found the dog. The beast's death bad
been caused by an ax wound in the head.
The supposition is the brute went mad.
anil bit his master. The old man reali
zing that death was inevitable, lock
ed himself in when he felt the madness
coming on, chained himself fast, locked
his fetters with a padlock aud threw the
key away.
Buried under the floor of the hovel was
found 913,010 in gold. There was nothing
that could shed light on the mystery of his
life. In one pock et was found an ocean
steamer check rroni Liverpool, dated No-
veinber!, ls74.ind on the wall hung an
oil miniature of a lovely worn in and a
child. The body was given a decent
burial.
A Loai Sound Money Saoat.
Chk'aoo, 111., Oct 'J. Octolier 0 will
bo celebrated by sound money men of
Isoth political parties by the greatest
demonstration ever seen in tho West
A 1 Mint lfm.nni) men will be in line.
At a meeting of the managers of the
electrical division of the parade it was
decided to arrange a special circuit along
the line of march, which will be connected
with long distance telephones, for the
purpose of allowing the voices or Illinois
sound money men and all the enthusias
tic acclaim incidental to a big parado to
speed over the wires to the various cities
iu the Fast and middle West
The plan is to pi ace transmitters at the
best vantage points. Audiphones at the
other end or the line in some localities
will be erected, so that multitudes in
other cities who assemble to hear the
novelty can distinctly hear the shout.
Men will be placed at each transmitter
in the city to announce each organization
and number of divisions as the parade
passes. Major McKinley will listed to this
music of the masses at hi Canton home.
Mr. Hobart will also have his ear to the
'phone. Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Mil
waukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and
Boston will lie or. the circuit
Firt Can of tie Campaign.
The first McKinley 'and Hobart pole
raised in thi county during the present
campaign was erected by the enthusiastic
Republicans residing in tho neighbor
hood of Pugh postotlice, Stonycreek
township, on Satunlay afternoon. Three
hundred people were present and
assisted in putting np the ninety foot
polo near the top of which floated a
Inirinir flirt nsme of thA 1tn-
tes. A
floated
pole was
1 by the
it ; S. S.
os toller,
U: Win.
i Yoder,
vered by
for As-
nd Asso
spcakers r points
rotective
1. Music
ns lirass
organiza-
ck town-
n major-
Over Thirty Years
Without Sickness.
Mr. II. Wettsteix, a well-known,
enterprising citizen of Byron, 111.,
writes: "Before I paid much atten
tion to regulating the bowels, I
hardly knew a well day; but since I
learned the evil re
sults of constipation,
and the efficacy of
AYER'S
Tills, I have not had
one day s sickness
for over thirty years
not one attack
that did not readily yield to this
remedy. My wife had been, previ
ous to our marriage, an inval d for
years. She had a prejudice against
cathartics, but as poon as she liegan
to use Ayer's Tills her health was
restored."
fMEM
LnJ Cathartic Pills
Kedal and Diploma at World's Fair.
Ta Restart Strength, take ftjer'i Saruozrilla
NO. 204 NORTH AVE., ALLEGHENY.
Good Place to Fit For College or Business.
Sentl Fop Descriptive Catalogue.
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I FURNITURE! I
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Our Stockls Large.
A thing to be considered
In buying Furniture.
PRICE is generally held to be of the lirst importance. It
should be the last. If you buy for quality you pay accordingly.
If you buy for price you get hat y i pay for.
Chamber Suits. Solid Oak and Cherry, containing six pieces, $.10, frss.
Antique Oak Suits, : H1, t tM.
I'arlorSnius ::::::: fii, j.hl
Sideboards, Solid Oak, :::::: tfio, $11,(14.
Chairs, Beds, Springs, Mattresses and all other kinds of Furniture at
lowest price.
FIGURE
Covers a multitude of sins, but it Isn't necessary to hav th
mdesirable features to secure figure. Kstabllsh in yohr mind
the detail of grades, then you are ready for price,
C. H. Coffroth,
g 606 M?5n Cross Street, . SOMERSET, PA 3
Plui ummiiumiumiuuiumuiumiiuiuuuuiuiu k
If Bryaa Win. Pay Donble.
Ken:tt SyiTARK. Pa., Oct.l A n-vel
contract arTci-ting a transfer of real estate
at Fairvillo, haa len eutered into by
Patrick McDonald. He has sold his
house to a purchaser whose name he a
yet refuses to disclose, the buyer to pay
$",uno for the property if McKinley shall
be elected, or l,oi if Bryan be the win
ner. Wedding Depends on Election.
Perry, O, T., (k-t. 4. The election will
decide whether Alice Younger and T. J.
Stanton of this city will become husband
and wife. Miss Younger wagers that if
Bryan is elected she will wed Stanton
and if McKinley is elected she will not.
Is what gives Hood'sarsaparilla its great
popularity, iu constantly Increasing
salea, and enables it to accompliah its
wonderful and unequalled cures. The
combination, proportion and process
used in preparing Hood's KarsapariKa
are unknown to other medicines, and
make Hood's Earsapsrilla
Peculiar to Itself
It cures a wide range of distaffs bt cause
of its power as a blood puriScr. It acts
directly and positively upon ihe blooa,
and the blood reacbta every nook and
cornerof the human system. Thus a!l
the nerves, muscles, bones and tissues
come under the beneficent influence ol
Sars
parilla
a.
Mood I'unfi
i. i; six for S3.
'"" ''v"r ta
I'lllS tfce.taij tuuiwrate. '.3c.
Jos. Home & Co.
A Big Majority
Vote in favor of OUU MAIL
OKDKll DEPT.
ISailots come thick aud fat in form
of orders for samples and catalogues;
soon followed by orders for Dress CJoods,
Suitings, Jackets, Coat., Wraps and
Itcadv-made Garments. Suitable for
every member of the family.
This week's special 5,0 yard im
ported Plain and Fancy
Dress Goods
43 and 4' inches wide latest shades
ami late imjiortat ion, unequalled value
at
o0c per yd.
When you send for samples ask for
our new catalogue, now ready FREE.
PENN AVE & FIFTH ST.,
PITTSBURG, PA.
We're determined to make it pay you
to buy ALL your Iiry ( Joods here either
to come specially, or include the store in
your Kxposition visit, or by ordering
through our Mail Order 1 vpartment. II
comitiK, so yMi can see and judge of the
advantage claimed for you here, is en
tirely out of the question write ns for
KamplHH of any kind of Bros lioods you
want and send your name and address
so you'll get the new catalogue you'll
want that whether you come or not it
will tell alxmt the new Jackets, Capes,
Suits, Children's Wraps. Boys' Clothing,
and all the needed household Pry ioods
You'll lind that it will pay you. as we've
made sure with goods that have merit,
on a small profit price basis, ji shall. A
examples of the largest and lict collec
tion of
American Dress Goods,
.t! to ) inehes wide 3V to 4'nt a yard
we ever ottered, note these :
XI inch navy blue Cheviot Serge "20c a
yard navy only and the rigiit shade
no uneven look about them, but nice,sofl,
f-igluly goods.
Four different lines strictly all-woni
Check Suitings :i inehes wide ."tic a yd.
Fine Foreign Bress Goods aud Suitings
,rnlc to M a yard.
.V-inch all-wool Black Canvas Weave
Suitings a.V a yard goods you'd expect
to ie at least half a dollar.
Black Serges front a :ts-inch nii-e fin
ished serge at i"e a yard up to include
the liuesl imported.
$1.25 Kid Gloves, 75c pair,
Chi7.e patent thumb, gussetted fingers,
imperial isiint Mitch. iiz on liack loin
j pearl buttons to matcii tan, red tan,
I brown, slate, mode, navy, blue, black
an unusual chance for you atlorded by
the greatest Kid I Wove deal weeverinade
new gloves made for this season 'JH
pairs send us your order (don't forget
size) and we'll send you the best glove
value you ever saw.
Cloak Uoom is in complete readiness
to supply your wants in that line to the
advantage t-f your pockettHKik.
BOGGS & BUHL
Allegheny, Pa.
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5 .V.v'JS-y ;4 K one T t.ie mo J-rf.-ct h'-.v II-. it. ..
Ti""?' "C" V'P-' f'' f.r iiou-iu'!d use, ev.-r .:. t.i ii;,, i: ,
r ,; "': nuilkft. All the latent and ucit id.
7 ?yJ?"'1,y. h if? s"'- incorporated into itnn-nm :i,.r:. 1.
3l t i ISj f- ' k. I : fra?uretoiromof !i!rn!i! v, ci ; r! . .'.
'&tSAMtT-,H '.f?-i and economy li.-.sbt-.n v i'.l i: ... ! - ; (
yprfcjX Products the Greatest Kzct I
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iijf&&k il The cold sir is drawn from t'.c r, t
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J?jf ""'''''ZJ - fonn ttm;raturc in alt of tlie f
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CjtxRlyJ-L Will K'f fin Tmtntf-foue Hoan! )
? flIl"l aTTf .t-tJ Can bUsf as a Single or Double Hentir'
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CxMIt THC CINDERELLA BcrOBC YOU BUY )
jj IAMBS 13. HOLUliKMUM, bomerstt, hjj
1847 189 a
Old Reliable Pharmacy,
YOUR CHOICE OF PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND
TOILET ARTICLES.
When you have a Cough
or Cold Use
ti 4 -I i- v
COUGH GURE
"urea ouicklv. That ir, what it ttse
ra id e for. Prompt, p.' fo. surc, i;u:.i
relief, quirk cure. rh a.int to take.
Children lik it rml r.iiuit lie it.
Mothers buy it for their cralclrcn.
Prepared T E. r. D-V. ;tt ft Ov. r: .ikrr of
PeWitr s Little Eary Kut-r. t" l.sn.i-cs
Lif.ie puis.
Fine Cigars of Imported und Do-
mcstic Brands.
.T-r Public Suit i.n fur Is -.) and I-ong
points in the United Stales.
VERY DAY
Brings Something- New !
A Riding or Walking Spring Tooth Harrow.
rf&z$i'Mte&mt&. mi i
No drawing of frame on tlie ground. The lightest fell fr. 'Wi'Il cka
itself of trash as easily as a hay rake, lluii as light will
a man on as others do without a load.
CALL AND SEE IT. WE GUARANTEE IT THE EEST
IN THE WORLD.
Sold on Trial.
J. B. Holderbaum,
Somerset, Pa,
Quinn's Big Store
We Are Showing a Splendid Lino of
i
NEW FALL'
In Black
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OXTAIXIXli Covert Cloth, two -
plain ami rough whHKgy surface, in coinbinntion of nilk and wool. 111 1 4i
ors, giving tlie roocN an irrulescent etfei-t. Two aiul three-toiicil l'li'''k
3
ings. Many of the new cMMla are woven in two anil three color, gi- (
chameleon effect, w hich ia viry pretty. These gootla are entirely diifercnt tn' "
in the city. Ptices are away )li low tbooe of last bestHon.
JAMES
i When you are suffering from
a Severe Pain use
Dps
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j Pure Wines and Liquors fc
r n.
I cal purposes only.
Instance Telephone coniiiiunic.it i u.l
Carbon GirLrt
t:rcr. ai t-..- !
soft coal h-il::
stove ever tr
ihntii. Absolutely Air
Tight.
Bt fire kt-'p--- in"
Ktcn.v. C.tii e
either a m: ;j
ilouble hcati-r.
An Entirely Kt
Stove
nii-le "pivi:i!'y!
ihii in.irk' t ! ti'
lariret m r"
of stove in
the worKL
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I'arfmii ii.iri4
inakini: tiiem t.
eraml moi !
I'rii-e iiohicber
ioi'.Tior '''
thi cl.es.
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P. A. SCHELL
Somer3e:,
DRESS GOOD-
and Colors.
Umeil Twill, honeycomb ami canvs
QUINN. Johnstown,
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