n c i. i lie oumeibCL nciaiu. ".DWAUP SCULL, Editor and Proprietor. A'F.nNKSHAY...- ... N-tolMT T, REPUBLICAN NATION ALTICKET President. , tVn.UAM M( Kini.ky, of Ohio. ; Vice President. iAKKi:r A. Hohakt. of New Jersey. .REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Congressmen-at- Large. ;tT.t-H A ;::. of wiiM)ii'li:iima. !mi n. A. Ii.ivcmmut, of Krie. Eectors-fit-Large. J. J !i WlmrloTi. l'hihi'Mpliia. A! x;iiil r K. l'alton. 'ltrrU-ll. William W iiln row, Alltrl-ny. lvii-r I.. KinilHTly. M-n-er. District Electors. I v J s.l'iar-m H-iry- I'n vost. j. ii. n I! . K.irk-. '". .1. K. r.n.wn. :i Kni.li li. II. tut;, v. 17 Knit. M. l-jiton. 4 'wni I i-I. M.v.rs.Us. '. l'.n.wn .i-.lier. v. mi. M T:iL-.-:.rt. I. II. H. shimMI. i. l.wi.ii II. Ilu.lii.ll. J. tiir.'i'T.s-auK. 7'. Vi!:.:.tnK.Soi.-y. -1. A. V. Whit'. . s J, Knli. .Ji Win.N. Il;iiid'. H-urv I.. .lotmon. -i. I'.. W.-i-lh.-iiiK-r. ll .I..IHI H. I-hii.Iis. -t. .l.-shili Si- r. -11 A. II W arrn. K.iwM K. At-rains. I.". is. W". Wil-i.-. 1-olorSoU-l. l ; H-irn i I4;i li. iT. William Sctinnr. It. L. W. .M;h. r. . Jos. C. CamililL iN;IiKsS. K. .1. Kikk, of Somerset Mor. J5ul".:v i tl.fi-ionof tin- I-iMriet l'oiif.reii-e. Assf.M HI.Y. Wm. II. Mii.i.i k, ol .jiieiualioiiing Twp. W. II. Sanm of Somerset 15or. A 'H A1 K JI'luiF. ;ko. .1. l.i v k, of 1 yersilak IJor. M1KK1FK. M. II. Ilartxell, of Ilorkwuod Por. ri: IT1IONOTAKY. II. 1". I'.Aitr.ox, of Somerset Bor. IM.i.IM Kll tV lUK'OKIiKll. J. M. Covin, of Jeiiner Twp. Ti'.i: r!ii:r. W'm. Vinti:i:s, of Somerset Twp. iUT CIlVMI-SlONKlt. ; : .. 1'. Kims ki., of M ilfon! Twp. t . a in: I o miii, of Somerset T p. I'm ill OIUKCToll. on V.'. I'm k. of Summit Twp. J A. A l ' 1H To lis. Jkukmiah Kikiaiis, of Somerset li-ir. j:. .1. I'.owmax, of Itrothersvalley Twp. Tiik New York World says the solid South is broken at last, and that West Virginia is sure to go for McKinley. Tom Wats in", the Popvilist candidate for Vice 1 'resident, has made a tour of the doubrf.il Southern and Western Stat-s, and rep rts Bryan's chances as ollbtUll. Wh at was once known as the Mass-aehu-tts I 'iii racy is now split into live separate parts: tills is the kind of harmony that is likely to prevail in luallV other States. Si: T"K Ti:i.i.i:k ami his brother own a big Mlvcr mine. It is not in op eration, but he is stumping the country for a governmental fiat that would con vert the mine into a money maker. Tut: Mlwr dollars coined last month by the l uited States airJegated .t'oO, o ri. Candidate Bryan us-d alout that luiinU r of words during August to prove that silver was assassinated twenty-three years ago. Is I i.i.i ois a canvass of the vote of workiugmcn employed in mills, facto ries and railroad shops iu nineteen towns shows that out of a total of 12,- 4sj there were 10.H1T for McKinley 1,11 for Bryan, and for I'alnier. Mi:. Itin an is on record as a free trader, and he shows no disnsition to recede from that iosition. The country has had a little exerieiuv with partial fr.-e trade, which all of Mr. Brvan's line sayings a! unit frit silver will not -aue the -ople to forget. Thk Republican majority in the last Slate election in Kansas was .'MJ.oiHI, in Kentucky .'', in Maryland IS.TUT, iu Michigan lo;.r:!2, iu Minnesota iMi.oi:;, in Ohio iu Wisconsin .V!,;i', in Iowa -V.it. iu Indiana, 4o,M, and in Illinoisl ii.inNi. These are some of the is4M-allci "doubtful" States. J'i:i:k silver advMMtcs t-ll the jieople that the rca-'.m a Mexican dollar, ii tain'mg m rc ilver than ours, is worth Ic-re only tifty-threc viits, is that "the Mexican dollar is not a legal tender in this countrv." But it is a legal tender in Mexico, and there it will buy only half a iniieh iu the stores and markets as a b:M--nt American dollar will buy just a ros the river. This is one of the facts that the advocate dodges. Tn K amount paid out by the i'overn nieiit in cnsion during the last tica year was, as we learn from the reiort f the 'ommi-sioner of l'eiisions, 14,'i. If free silver should triumph, 'ery one of these pensions would le paid in debased dollars dollars worth only a tri!le more than half a dollar each. What do the ienioncrs. and 2eople who U lieve ill treating the -n-sioin i's fairly and honorably, think of Mich a jiroMH-ct V 2 i' w s promised in c-'o-Tal terms by lea-ling men inter . 1 i i the tistioiis at isu--, s.s-.s the I. i:i.-;ster Iuiuirer, that tliis campaign i-jt.l H' one of education. It h:.- pr..vcd so in a ro ni tlkal 'e degri-e and i'i i,iore respects t'i:iu was anticiiatHl. Mr. Bryan, him self. h:is ha-l an o-por":i..i:y to learn a gn-at leal, and it is to lie hoped he has j-rotit-d by it. Mr. Mi Mun. v 1i:ls given evidence that he is learning many things, and his daily utterances show that he is keeping abreast of events and lias a mind capable of mastering the problems that are confronting this and :lier nations. But the greatest work !' this c: mj-aigu has lieeii the educa tion of the j-oplo the voters of the na'.iou, on the various iri -'i'tis that are up for decision by ttieir votes. Never since lvtl has there U-ell so much done in the way of giv in g inform i.tioil to the Jeople, and the work g'H-s itravely on. l.'vetl now the eU'ects if this edilc: ii in of the mas-es is shown in a marked iegre.-. The gnat Mast, north of the S'oIoihk-, has Nfii j-raelical'y a'oau lon,il liy the Bryan foll-ee.-rs New Kuglatid solid f-r Miiuun-y ativl inmest money. New York, I'ennsyl vai.ia and New Jersey are equally -r-tain, and Ohio will greet htr favoriie .u with an overwhelming majority, In the South, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia w ill swell thcllcpsb'ien majority, and there is small douhl l..al Kentucky will keep them cotupauy. But the great middle Vtt i where the battle rages most liereefr. litre the campaign of education is getting iu its work most royally. In the begin ning. Illinois, I-.wa, Indiana, M in net-it a and Michigan were iu doubt. On the three former not a shadow of un certainty now rests. As certain as the un shines they will cast tlieir vote for the Ohio man; but the good work still continues, for it is intended to make the majorities secially emphatic. Min tieHota ami Michigan w ill also vote for McKinley, but in thee States the free tilver disease htm Uva rartieulaxly vir- uleiit, aixl tin' rt-i-ovc-rv is slower. The Middle West is the field w here the P.ry anites will light longest aiid most des- ! jH-rately. They w ill not rive them up, for in doing that they give up ineiignu Uryan, himself, is lighting with desi or ation, but his contest is so unskilfully nianagetl that it dos his cause more hann than gootl. Nothing iuM so much have strengthened hisopponents as the words of unwisdom he has ut tered on his eastern tour. Every etlort he has made tool-lain siieeess has hut led hi n further and further away from it. The final result is as plain as any thing in the future can W The vi tory for Moivinley will In thorough and far-reaching. It will settle oneo and for over t lie question of the free coin age of silver and place our currency on a hroad and solid foumlation that will l.ring stahility to business and genuine prosjH-rity t the i-nmtry. A Silver Fallacy Exposed. The Bryanites have met with a serious disaster in the a-tvani-e iu tlie pri-e of wheat and the decline in the value of silver. No assertion, argument or device has done so much to help the silver mine owners as the charts they have distribut ed to farmers, making it appear that the jrie of w heat is governed ly the pri-e of silver. The assertion is false, hut truth is slow in overtaking falohHd in this nutter. In a little over thirty days wheat ad vanced approximately 1". cents a bushel. At the same tifne silver declined. The commercial price of bar silver in New York was tf; cents an ounce on Septem Iht t. and at tin- end ol the month it was t;".i, a considerable decline. And all that time wheat was advancing. This thing has often happened, but many farmers do not seem to be aware of the fact. The object lesson, right in the heat of the campaign, can not fail to Intellect ive. The advance in the price of wheat and decline in the value of silver have l-ecn entirelv due to the law of supply and de mand. The bad condition of the wheat crops in India and Argentina has led to an increased demand for wheat from th; I'l-ited Stat-s. That sent the price up. just as the enormous increase iu the pro duction of wheat and decreased consump tion in recent years sent the price down 1 he price of wheat at the farms in the West has not declined since 17'! in any thing like the projortion represented to the fanners. Iu the years lsTl-"! the crops of wheat were short and the speculation was unprecedented. Prices were ilk-git imately high. The collapse came with the panic of W.'J. The average price of wheat fin the farm in Iowa. Minnesota, Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska in sin was (Hi cents a bushel. In ls" the price was i' cents in the depreciated paper cur rency : in lv70, so cents ; Ws, ,v cents ; in Issi in; -ents: in lssi .vt cents, an. I in lsi-J, :; cents. The decline in the cost of transporta tion has made a greater dillereuce in the price in New York city. The average dillereuce Iielween the price of wheat on the farm in the West and in New York was alNiut 7" cents in ls":i, and 'S cents in s:i"i. That saving in transporta tion by improved railroad methods ae- Kiints for a large reduction in the price. Since ls44 the cost of transntrtation has declined st.ii per iviiL. while the decline in silver has l-ecn al-out ' percent. Wheat fell 4U per cent., lietween 1--72 and Is7st w hile silver declined only 17 per cent.; wheat then rose per cent. I iy lssi. while silver rose a fraction over ." percent.; then wheat fell about .Viper cent, to lssi, while silver fell only 4.-'! per cent. ; wheat rose . . per cent, by lsss, and silver at the same time fell over 14 per cent, and so on, show ing that there is no relation whatever lietween the price of silver and the price of wheat. Corn, oats and other crops are more im portant to the farmer than his wheat. The average price per bushel of all grain in the West in ls"-J w as cents a bushel. and in lfil it was 4U cents. The value oi wheat on farms west of the Mississippi iu lNin was in all commodities at New York al unit ".ii.iL In Itc, it was tii'J per cent. In Uith the Kast anil the West a bushel of wheat would buy more of other imnmodities ir. 1sh" than in ls7Jorin ls-ai. This demonstrates the folly an falsehood in the l'opocratic argument aliout wheat. The statist h-s show that nearly 11 per cent, of the farmers own their ow n farms without encumbrance, and the liens on the remaining farms are only T..V per cent, of their value. The grain farmers are therefore creditors and not debtor and reducing the value ol the dollars one-half, or "from cents to I'M cents." as Mr. Bryan has staled the proposition will only injure the farmer, as well as the people in general. Philadelphia Press. Repudiation, Nullification, devolution. From a sjk Ii by i -ii- r.i! It. F. Tr.icy. The Chicago platform is loaded with dynamite. It declares l"r repudiation, nullification and revolution. To pro nounce fifty i-eiits' worth of silver to 1m- 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 Congress w hen resisted by io lence and insurrection, w ithout the con sent of the Jovemor of the State, is nul lification. To reorganize the Supreme Coiirt so as to make it the registrar of the d-crecs of a political caucus is revolution. Calls it a Forgery. From til" "I-"inuncial News," Si-jn. It. In our issue of August I t wet-xik occa sion to refer to the circulation in the American newspapers ot an article entitle-1 "'The ;rip ol'iod." purporting to lc an extract t'roui the Financial News of March 1". ls-H. and we stated that no such article had ever appeared in this journal. As certain American papers continue to reprint this article, crediting it to the Fi nancial News, we have again to warn our readers and our American enntempo raries that it is a forgery, and its whole tenor is entirely opjxised to the views w e have alw ays taken of the effect of freesil ver legislation in the I'nited States. Hall's Season far Bolting. Vnited States Bistrict Attorney Harry Alvin Hall has formally declined the Iieniocratie nomination t.,r presidential elector iu the Twenty-eighth Congress ional district. He has w ritten a letter to State Chairman John M.Uarinan stating the reasons w hy he cannot support Bry an or the Chicago platform, and announc ing that he will vote for McKinley. Among other things he says; "This cam paign is not lietween the Republican par ty upon the one sidj and the Bcmocraiir party on the other, as we have heretofore understood the terms. It is a liatlle in v. i.i-'h the forcesof law, social order and pairi'-i ism are arrayed against those of anarchy, dishonesty and disorder. Killing Diseased Catt. The law under which cattle havirg a contagious disease are condemned, killed a-id paid for has lieen umu the statute j Uh(ks of tho stJt(l flr ,iuile a ,,,,,,. , years, and appropriated only JI.imi per year for the purpose, nf recent years the amount slated proved to lie too small, so the last legislature removed the limit of fl.iMl and now all cattle, and horses and mules as well, coming under the head of "dangerous, contagious, or infectious dis a.ses," no matter if they aggregate an expense of ?1U,ii -er year, are paid for. This Uw is in force since June 1, ls:i.i. It might lie added that under the old law the State paid ?J for a cow, no difference whether a common or registered animal. Coder the late law the highest price the Stale will allow for a commou cow is fSi and for a registered one not over S-li. For a horse or mule the sum allow ed is not over $10, and for a standard-bred, reg istered or imported horse the State does not allow over So per cent, of the apprais ed value of any such animal. INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH. Thrilling Story of the Runaway "Train at Sand Patch Tunnel. one of the worst and most expensive freight w recks in the history of the Bal timore V Ohio Railroad occurred shortly after 12 o'clock Thursday night, near Philson Si.ling, eight miles east of Sand Patch tunnel. Fast freight train No. 74 was scheduled to meet west-lioiind freight No. !Ci at the siding. Shortly utter starting down the grade the east- liound crew lost control ol their train and in a moment were chasing down the stc ; grade at the rate of 70 miles an hour. The two trains came together with an awful crash and loa.led freight cars w ere piled fifty feet high. At !' o'clock Friday evening four un known tramps had 1-i-cn taken out of the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Philson station. tramps wim are now in me W.-tcrn Maryland hospital say that at least 1.1 more are buried in the debris. They were riding iu the car ahead of tho one in which the injured tramps were. and nothing has lieen seen or heard from them since the wreck occurred. The injured trainmen, none of whom are seriously hurt, were taken to ineir homes in Connellsville Friday evening. They are W. J. Zane, engineer, and Thomas Owens, fireman, of east-lKund train 71, and Brakoman John Cornell. Their story of the runaway train and the wreck is thrilling. The trj.in left Sand Patch shortly after i - midnight. Sixteen cars next the engine were equipped with air brakes. Before tarting into the tunnel the hand brakes on three cars on me rear ran were sei. Two more were set after the brakenien noticed that their train was getting bo yond control. By this time the east end of the tunnel had !ocn reached, and En gineer Zane had the wheels of his engine md hi cars back of him locked dead with air. 1 he heavily loaiied cars nai aiiain- such frightful velocity, however, that it j was impossible to check their speed on the wet rails. The brakemen and Con ductor J. J. 1 larhaugh 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 Ioiiis l ieiger cut off the caboose two miles west of Row man station. Conduc tor Harbaugh and Brukeman i. J. Mick ey uncoupled the three cars nest to the cab-Mise and stopped them. Brakcman Cornell stuck to his sst on the front end of the train until the light in his lantern w ent out. Then he went back over the train with Fireman Owens. The col lision came I cfore they had gone two car lengths. Engineer Zane hung to the steps of his engine for four mill's. He said that he had fully made up 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-Uium! train ;i1. I'ngi neer Zane knew that he was sure to crash into the ponderous engine hauling No. !'." up the mountain w ithin a few seconds, and he hung to the whistle lever until he saw the glimmer of its headlight. He scrambled back ovcrtlietenderand reach ed the first lix cjir before the two engines came tog-ther. He knew nothing after hat until Friday morning. Brakeman Cornell and Fireman Owens were like wise htirb-1 from the top of a car over a fill to the left of the track some U'l feet high. Both were severely cut and bruis ed, but managed to get among the wreck ed cars first and help out the injured. When the two trains met the force of the collision sent the easi-ltoutid engine ploughing through the west-lound train :m yards. The main track and the sid ing for that distance were torn up as though dynamite had been exploded every f-xit f the way. Engineer Oeorge Kauffiuan, of No. !H, jumped as soon as possible after he saw the headlight of the other engine. A mile below he heard the screaming of the whistle and the roar of the runaway train and revers ed his engine. His fireman, William Shaw lis, jumped just as the two engines came together. Ho was found uncon scious in a field so yards away from the tracks. The only thing Shaw lis rem-m-liers is seeing the approaching headlight and his impulse to jump. Not a vestige of the two engines remain together. Immediately follow ing the collision an explosion occurred. Several cars on train 74 were loaded with tlour. The supposition is that it was the II inr dust that explo-I-'I. The report awoke the residents of Philson station ami sent up a cloud of milky whiteness. The cries of the injured tramps attract ed the attention of the trainmen as sis in as they regained their presence of mind, i hie Imdy was ree -vered at daybreak Thursday, and since then three more have been f -mid. oin of them a colored man. Then was nothing on their In lies to identify them. The tramps in the Cumberland hospi tal stale positively that they know of 1.1 men u ho wera heum.; tlieir way over the niou-i'.aiu on train 71. Brakeman Cornell is also positive that a large num ber Were al-oard tho train. They were in a box car al-out the middle of the train, and had th' d-ior fastened on tho insi-le to kis-p out the cold. I'ntil all the debris is cleared up it w ill be impossible to tell w hether th"se esc ipi-I injury and left the scene in the excitement that fol lowed. - Vice President Injured. Brni.iNoToN. Ia., o.-t. 1. A very ex citing incident marked the demonstra tion hereto-day, hel l in commemoration of the semi-centennial of Iowa's State hood, in which Yice l'rsid-ut Stevenson ami others made narrow escapes from death, and several prominent persons were seriously hurt. After the pirad - ha 1 covered aliout half of the line of march, O.ivernor Francis Drake an I si ill". Vice President Stevenson and all of th St it- and local ofticers were in laet.-d to a review ing stand. Scarcely were they seated w hen the stand gave way wiih a crash, and the entire structure w cut to tin-ground, a mass of broken timbers. Women fainted, and great confusion at once reigned. iovernor Drake and Vice President Stevenson were on the front tier of seat and were thrown backward upon the others, and thus' esc t;e,l fatal injury, lmt they were, nevertheless, badly shaken up and considerably bruised. Spilled the CofL-e in the Spring. Km rou H kii i.i: In a recent arti-de hailed "Coft'ee Spring." you say "In.piiry among our older citizens failed to elicit any informa tion as to how this spring aejuired its nam-." I have it front my grandmother Win ters, with whom I lhe-1 wii-ii she kept toll-gate cast of Somerset. Henry Schnei der, son of A -lain, married a lady iu Maryland, near B -loiichliorough. Some of his tii-ighb rs moved west and neces sirily had to pass through Somerset. I le request.-d them to stop w ilh his fath er. There were four wag ns in the train, some from Funkstown and some from Clearspring; the family from the latter place were schoolmates of my father. We lived at the Fox place and they con cluded to tarry a few days with us aiid camped at the "Coffee Spring." i ne of the women prepared to brown some coins w hile in camp and when passing from the wagon to the tire by the spring she tripped and lauded the skillet and -tIV-e in the water, and for a long time thereafter the green entree 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, la., Sept. 21th. "Burdock Blood Bitters entirely cured j me of a terrible breaking out all over my liody. It is a wonderful medicine." Miss Julia Kibridge, Box il, West Corn well, Conn. COMPULSOEY DISHONESTY. Benjamin Harrison Tells How People Be Hade Dishonest by Law if Bryan Wen Elected. In the Octolier number of the "Forrtn" Benjamin I la. rison, writing upc l "Com pulsory Iish nesty " says: "The free silver leaders d- not seem .o nie to deny what their opponents assert , namely, that the tree coinage, of silver at the ratio of Hi to 1 will, if the relative 1 commercial value of gold and silver re ! mains unchanged, wipe out about one- h-tlf of every existing promise to pay money; that every promissory note, bond savings deposit, liank deposit, building as sociation certificate, life insurance joIicv, pension, salary and wage -ontract will le affected precisely as if note, Imud, ocrtif-i'-ato, dejiosit luxik, contract, or pension certificate had lieen surrendered for a new one in which was writ.en one-half the amount of the old. "How much ow et thou unto my Ird?" ami he said: "A hundred measures of oil." And he said unto him: "Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, au-I write fifty." "A North.vestern Senator told me, when the silver debate was on in the Senate in KM !!, that a Southern Senat or had said to him: I do not want you to think that I am a f-ol. 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 debt.' The Senator thus addressed replied: 'Well, I think you have saved your intellectual integrity, but at the cost of your moral integrity.' When Senator Hill, of New York, in the Chicago convention, pressed this ol -jet-lion to free coinage and Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, declared that fre coinage was'robliery, Mr. Bryan, in a speech that won him the nomination for the Presidency, had only this to say in reply : " 'Hut if he matis to say that w6 can not change our monetary system without protecting those who have loaned mon ey liefoie the change was made, I want to ask him wdiere, in law or in morals, ho can find authority for not protecting the debtors w hen the act of ls7." was passed, but now insists that we must protect the creditors?' "It is the supposed injury to the debt ors of 1S7.I that Mr. Bryan proposes to re coup from the ci editors of Is::. He takes no account of the fact that the debtor and creditor classes are not fixed classes in this country; that the debtor of IS7.J may lie the creditor of 1S!1; and that the coun ter claim pleaded in liehalf of the debtors of 17I, would Im levied on their own goods in considerable part, and be paid t? the men who are supposed to have been desjioiled in 17& The only ltonds that run il years are railroad and other corpi rate bonds. Farm mortgages rarely run more than five years. The railroads, the banks, the large corporations, and tho I'nited States are the great debtors of Wo, who are still the debtor class; and among their creditors are the thrifty poor, the widow, the orphan and tho disable-1 veteran. The proposition is that these great debtors shall now be permitted to discharge their obligations in dollars worth one-half the dollar now in use. I must qualify that statement; but it is not that they shall Is permitted, but ompell ed, to pay in the debased dollar. Dishon esty is not made optional, but compulso ry: for while the United Slates must re ceive its taxes and rstom dues, ami the banks their loans, iu 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 gold the gold we have borrowed. If the debtor is too honest to set up the de fence. I suppose the court will lie re quired to appoint a guardian ad litem to tile the plea for him. " nly one chance of escape is offered to us from the conclusion that one of the great historii-al parties of this country is now making a campaign for the repudia tion of one-half of all the indebtedness of the country national, corporate and in dividual and that is found iu the sug gestion 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 rcsponsliility w hich is usually felt by the man who is proposed for the greatest otlice instituted by tho constitution. But it is not a pr "position upon which the free silver advocates agree, I think. It is n-.t put tithe front of the campaign it was not so well thought of as to appear in tie platform, either as a probable result of free coinage or even as a thing to lie desired. To Imr row an illustration from S. S. Prentiss, Mr. Bryan uses the suggestion that sil ver w ill rise to a parity with gold as a heavy bird of flight uses the limliol'a dead tree for a perch the bird keeps its wings extend-! and in gentle motion while it tries th strength of the limb. I have it it ohs-Tve I th U Mr. Bryan has m ich argued thepoint. Indeed, he h is been sharply taken to task by friends for in iking it. It destroys the whole silver program. They say that g dd has appre ciatd ; that the gp between the silver an 1 g il l d ill ir Ins leen wh illy ciusod by the rise iu the value of the gold dollar; tint the silver d ill ir is therefore th s old and true measure of values. Hut it is not true, as Mr. Il.-y in sovn to intimate, that the law of 1S71 changed o ir in ney stand ird to the injury of the debtor class. The silver dollar was drop ped from our coinage, hut it was not then a cheap dollar, hut a par dollar; the .171 grains of pur silver in itwer3af.ill equivalent as bullion of the -',.11 grains of pure g-ild contained iu the gild dol lar. It is not fair then to liken the change in our coinage laws made iu 1S7: to th it now proposed. The firmer neith er involved dishonesty nor oppression. Iu order to in ike good the charge that the law of WJ wrought th inju ries im;iute I to it, the assertion is made that thi gold dollar has appreciated, gnu up. lold production lrts increase-! from 4,'i1!,ti7.1 o inee.s in W-'l to !1,SJ.,1J.1 ounces in ls:l"i and silver from i;;,U77,ls7 oun -es in W.; to !71.7.li,lll ounces iu lsli. In view of these considerations and thoie figures as to production, who is wis. en mgli to s ay thai the gold has gone up or silver d wn, or how much either metal h is varied ? And yet it has been assumed that the silver dollar has been a true and stable me isure of value, that it has neither gone up nor gone down sim-e ls.7-1, and that it would be honest to return to that stand ard and settle all contracts by it. "Now how is this to he proved ?" or do our silver friends think it worth while to prove anything? This illustration, used by Mr. Bryan, is tho only attempt at ar gument I have seen; If he says a man able 1 1 p-'rlorm his c m tracts sh mid otl'er to pay one dollar per bushel for all the wheat brought to him, would not the prii-e of wheat go up to a dollar? But the Failed Stales is not to hay the silver it only puts a stamp on it and returns it t-i the owur. It is rather as if a miller should oiler to take all the wheat brought to him to grind into l inr without charge, to put each one huu 1 red po inds of ilu Hour into a barrel, to stain', on the head of it : 'T.ns is a h irrel of !l car,' and to return it to the owner. How would the price of w heat, or of tl mr, ba atrecled by that transaction ? "There are many people, I suppose, who would scorn to take advantage of a law that allowed them to have a full dis charge fr.-iii their debts upor the pay ment of fifty cants on tli9 d illar, but who do not feel humiliated by th-3 snjgstion that they shall pay them with a coin called a dollar, hut only worth fifty rents as compared with the dollar they borrow ed. It is said to be the d.illar the dollar of the Constitution, and of the Fathers, and they are lieguiled. It is neither the Constitution does not require Con gress to coin silver dollar 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,' and neither gold nor silver is anywhere mentioned in the Constitution save in a section prohibit in the States from doing certain things, where it says: 'No State shall. . nia'ie anything but gold and silver coin a tender inpayment of debts. It is not th- old dollar, nor tho dollar of our fath ers; for their dollar was based upon the ihti existing commercial ratio between silver and gold. "I ut, in fact, there is no reis-m to lie liev'i that silver would appreciate, as the residt of free coinage, to a parity with gol I at the present ratio. All that is guess work a guess not so much in the direc tion of the desires of tho silver people, but to allay the feirs of those wh idrcid silver 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 leading silver Senators 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,.1M,niM wince of line silver per month would take up the silver surplus that they said was weighing down the market price, and s i make and keep our silver dollar at pir with the gild dollar. Shall we trust theso prophets again to our cost ?". Bryan Will Lose His State. Uepresenative Hainer. of Nebraska, was at Republican 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 Suite. There has been a decided reaction. At first State pride entered very largely into the prolilem, but the Nebraska people are not repudiators am! can always lie relied upon 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 iu the cities has a lithograph ei ther of McKinley or Hryau, but five out of every six busi-n-ss men, even iu Lin coln, are for sound money. "The farming classes are all right, de spite the fact that they have suffered un der a great prostiati-ui of business and three successive crop failures. I'n.ler 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 ls;l, and how llie people of .Nebraska got to gether and lilted out a shipload of provis ions to relieve the distress iu that rich agricultural country; nor has it lieen for gotten that when Congress was asked to pay for the transportation William J. Bryan was among those who voted against the appropriation to send tho ship across the waters on its mission of mercy. You will find, in spite of the confusing statements made alKiut the result in Ne raska, that iu the final round-up Ne braska will bis a Republican State still." May Vaccinate Pupils. State Superintendent Sehaell'er has prepared a circular on the law relating to the vai-cination of school children. He says there may lie some question as to the application of the compulsory feature of the act in the townships, but at the same time it is advisable lor all sch-iol lioards to take such measures as may l-e 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 c ompliance w ith this re quirement a condition of admission to the public schools. Dr. Schaetl'er says if contagious diseases are prevalent in the neigh Imrhood or if th -re is danger of the spread of a contagion from contact w ith other localities, the directors ought to protect the schools. The state superin tendent says quesii ins w hich arise con cerning the vaccination of school chil dren must lie determined by the direct ors. WDPSONONDCK, PA. Low Bate Ezcarsioa via Pennsylvania Bail road. At this period of the year there is no more delightful place for a short outing than Wopsoiionock, situated on the top of the Allegheny Mountains, -Jiiln feet above tidewater. Wopsoiionock atfirds a in igniliecnt view of the country for miles around, now made more beautiful by theautiium-tinted foliage. The scene from Point L i k out is not i-quale 1 east of tic; Kockv Mountains. The railroad north of Ah-1 ma as'v.m Is 1 1 l left in t he distance of eight miles. on Sat ir liy, : '.er 17, th Pennsyl vania Knlroa 1 C cup my will ran an ex cursion t i (his deligntfiil resorl, for which round-trip tickets will be sold at an ex te liugly low r at .. A siic.-ial train will In run on the s-'ic- hue given below : Tim-- Kit.- IVtsh ir. s.'i,, A. M. s; hi .lo'i'i -:.nni In l i " 1 S B--tur:iing leaving Wopsenonock at .Vim P. M., arriving at Altoona at .1.11 P. M.. stopping for supper; leave Altoona li P. M., in iking same stops. Tickets will permit of stop off at Alt'i-inaou re turn trip, an! will lie good for return passage until October 1!', inclusive. Famine After The Cyclone. Jacks in vn. I. K. Fi.a., O -t. Now the horrors of famine ar-j added to the hor rors of the cyclone's devastation. Th m sauds of people in Alachua, Lafayette and Levy Counties are starving, and a special session of the Legislature m iy be called to relieve the distress. Hundreds of farmers have lost everything; their winter's food is wholly gone. The roads are impassable for wag ins, and food will lie carried down the Siuva ne Iliver. Tiie loss to pli isp'n ite plants is est i mate 1 at si ,u l, and tho cedar f ir ests of Lafayette County are d-jst roved. The turpentine men are ruined, and UVM iii'-u employed at th - stills are out of employment. Charitible contributions from other States will certainly lie needed. The Tyranny of the 3esk. 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 lalior from morning till night. Sunday is your only day of relaxation. You return home every evening w earied mentally and ImhI ily. Your health and strength liegin to fail. What will most effectually recu perate your vital energy ? The weight of evidence joints to no other conclusion than that llcstetter's Stomach Bitters is your safest, most reliable sheet anchor, f"se it persistently, and your system will soon regain its pristine vigor. Every function will rei-eive a healthful impulse. There is no remedy to equal the Bitters for nervousness and want of sleep, dys pepsia, constipation and biliousness. U averts and remedies all forms of malarial disease, and is a preventive of rheuma tism and neuialgia. A Destructive Storm. A storm that oiiginated in the West Indies swept over the .Vlanticcoast Tues day night and Wednesday morning, de veloping such an intensity that many millions' worth of property were destroy ed and a mimtier of lives were lost. At Savannah the loss ill aggregate $1,(K, (miiand nine pcoplcj were killed by the wreckage of the storm. Alexandria, Va., felt the full force of the gale, and four fa talities are reporpil Troin 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 saw ing wood from the uprooted trees. Every street in the capital was lined with branches anil twigs of trees w hich have been almost toUilly ruined. i Baltimore did not Jeel the full force of i the storm, for beside the cutting off of ; telephone and telegraphic commniiii-a- tions and delaying V the railroad trallic, but Utile serious da:V-ge was done. ret Heroio End of a Hermit' life. Ci.kvki.ax;i, O , -t. 4. The little town of Hinckley, 21 miles from this city, in Medina county, was thesciineof a grue some death Saturday. Nearly 'D years ago thero appeared in Hinckley a strang er, of whom nothing was known beyond the name which ho give, Bernard Sher man, and with him came a big St. Ber nard dog, which was his inseparable com panion. The stranger took up his abode iu an old hovel which he rented in the lonesome outskirts of the hamlet. The living place of the old man gradually be came surrounded with an air of mystery, and tho place came to be regarded with superstition and fear. The mysterious dweller rarely visited the village and then only for the ns-essaris of life which lieseemiil to have plenty of money t pay for. The old man had not l-ecn seen for a long time, and an investigation was be gun. When the tlour to the hut was broken in the old man was found lying dad, chained to a post, the condition of the body telling of a terrible struggle, w hich tho doctor have ascrilied to hy drophobia. Just outside the hove! was found the dog. The lieast's death had lieen caused bv an ax wound in the head. The supposition is the brute went mad. and bit his master. Th 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 and threw the kev awav. Buried under the tl-mrof the hovel was found si:!,(ioii in gold. There was nothing that could shed light on the mystery of his life. In one pocket was found an ocean steamer check from Liverpool, dated No- veiii!er!, Wl,tud on the wall hung an oil miniature of a love! v woin m and a child. The Im-lv was given a decent burial. A Loud Sound Money Shout. Ciin-.v-io, 111., ot. I. Octolier !) will be celebrated by sound money men of Imth political partiiw by the greatest demonstration ever seen in the West. Almut luu.nni) men will 1 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 lie connected with long distance telephones, for the purpose of allowing the voiis-s of Illinois sound money men and all the enthusias tic acclaim incidental to a big parade to speed over the wires to the various cities in the East and middle West. The plan is to pi.-u-e transmitters at the best vantage points. Audiphones sit the other ml of the line in some localities will be erected, so that multitudes in other cities who assemble to hear the novelty can distinctly hear the shouts. Men will be placed at e.tcii transmitter in the city to announce each organization and numb. -r of divisions as the parade passes. Major McKinley w ill listen to this music of the masses at his Canton h m. M r. I lobart will also have his ear to the 'phone. Cincinnati. Philadelphia, Mil waukts, Detroit, Cleveland, Ball'iloan I Boston will be oi. the circuit. First Gan of the Cimpiiga. The first McKinley and I lobart pole raised in this county during the present campaign was erected by the enthusiastic Republicans residing in the neighbor hood of Pugh postotlice, Stouyerc-k township, on Saturday afternoon. Three hundred people were present and assisted iu putting up the ninety foot pole near the t ip of which tl late 1 a streamer bearing the names of the Re publican presidential candidates. A handsome American llag also lloaled from the stall. As soon as the pole was erei-te-1 a meeting was org iniz d by the election olS. B. ' I ir, Presid :it ; S. S. Snyder, K. D. C ileinan. O. E. Mostoller, and F. F. Cable. Yice Presidents : Win. Walker, E. D. Trent, and Moses Yoder, Secretaries. Addresses were delivered by dpt. W. H. S inner, can lid it - for As sembly, Prothonotary Savior, and Asso ciate Judge Horner. All of the speakers were warmly received and their points in favor of sound mony and a protective tarill were heartily applauded. Music was furnished by the Fried. -ns brass band, one of the best musical organiza tions in the county. Stoiiycreek town ship will increase lcr Republican major ity this fall. Over Thirty Years Without Sickness. Mr. II. Wkttstein. a well-known, mterprisiiig citizen of Byron, 111., writes: "Before I paid much atten tion to regulating the Imwels, I hardly knew a well day; but since I learned the evil re sults of constipation, and the cHidcy of AYER'S Tills, I have not hail one ilav s sickness for over thirty years rf not one attack that did not readily yield to this remedy. Jly wife had been, previ ous to our marriage, an invalid for years. She had a prejudice against cathartics, but as Foon as she 1-cgan to use Ayer's Pills her health was restored." mm LrO Cathartic Pills Medal and Diploma at World'! Fair. Ta Restore Strength, take Ajer's Sarsaosrilla Miserable - . w NO. 204 NORTH AVE.. ALLEGHENY. Good Place to Fit For College or Business. Send For Deriptive Catalogue. FURNITURE Our Stockls Larire." H A thing to be considered jjE In buying Furniture. I'KICE is eenerallv held should be the last. If you buy for iptality yon pay accordingly. If yon buy for price you get what you pay for. 5 Chamlier Suits. Solid Oak and Cherry, containing six pieces, Sil, f:0, fr. j-.-- Anti.ue oak Suits, :::::: : jsp;, js, I'arlor Suits. ::::::: J'-'n. Ji .:tn. t: SidelHiards, Solid Oak, :::::: ?lt, tflju. J": ('hairs, Iteds, Springs, Mattresses and all other kinds of Furniture at ' 2 lowest price. i FIGURE : : : : : p" Covers a multitude of sins, but it isn't necessary to hav the y- -lndesirable features to secure figure, llstablish in your mind Jj the detail of grades, then you are ready for price. C. H. Coffroth, B 606 M?m Cross Street, SOMERSET, PA fuu luiuimiumimimuimmimiumuiiiuiu If Bryan Wins, Pay Doable. Kknxktt Soj-akk, Fa., t.l A n-.vel f m trail atrectinjr a transfer of real estate at Fairville, has lieen entered into by Patrick Mcfhinald. lie has sold his house to a purchaser whose name he as yet refuses to disclose, the buyer to pay jfjimi) for the property if McKinley shall Is elected, or l,m if Rryan be the win ner. TL'.diliriiT trmnili nn Election. .. . r i Fumy, T., let. 1. The election w ill I decide w hether Alii-e Younger an-l T. J. Stanton of this city will become husband and wife. Miss Younger wagers that if Itryati is elected she will wed Stanton and if McKinley is elected she will not. Is what gives Hood'iijsarsaparilla its preat popularity, its constantly increasing sales, and enables it to accomplish its wonderful and unequalled cures. The combination, proportion and process u ted in preparing Hood's Sarsaj-aril'a are unknown to other medicines, anil make Hood 'a Sjarsaparilla Peculiar to Itself it -urvs a wide range of distases In cause of its power as a blood uri'-er. It acts directly and positively upon ..he blouo', and the blood reaches every nook and corner of the human system. Thus a!l the nervts, imi-clis, bourn and Ussces come uncier the bciierht lit intiuenci of si rs S3 2 IS 5" U Sarsaparilia r.i.n-d 1-nr li ft; si for iX .... i i- I rvr 1 i 's : c;.y to VJoJ S t .fcc.-a.-luo..-ratc.C. Jos. Home & Co. A Big Majority Vote iu favor of OUB MAIL oi:i)i:n dkpt. Hallots come thick and fast in form of orders for samples and mtalogm-s: soon followed by orders for Iress ohmIs, Suitings, Jackets, Coats, Wraps and Iteady-madc Uarnieiits. Suitable for every memU-r of the family. This wei k's sjM-cial",bi' yards im twirted Plain and Fancy Dress Goods I.: and 4'1 inches w id latest shades and late importation, uiusiualled value at oik- jkt yd. When you send for snniples a-k for our new catalogue, now ready Flu KM. PENN AVE. & FIFTH ST., PITTSBURG, PA. We're determined to make it pay yon to buy A I.I . your I ry roods here eit her to come secially, or include the store in your Kxposition visit, or by ordering through our Mail Order I'rpaVtment. It coming, so ym ran s au-I judge of the advantages claimed for you here, is en tirely out of the n iestioti write lis for sampbs of any kind of Press ioods you w am -and send your name and address so you'll get the new catalogue you'll want that whether you -mc or not it ill tell aliout the new Jackets, Capes. Suits. hlldren's Wraps. Hoys- Clothing, and all the needed household Ilrv ll.. You'll lind that it will pay you. as we'w made sure w ith goods that have merit, on si small prolit price basis, j shall. As examples of the largest ami best collec tion of American Dress Goods, 's; to 40 inches wide '.Me ti IV yard w e ever ottered, note these : v! inch navy blue Cheviot Serge "JOc a yard navy only and the right shade no uneven look aliout them, but nice.solt, sightly g-ods. Four different lines strictly all wm.i Check Suitings : inchi-s wide .'-.h-a yd. Fine Foreign I'resslioods and Suitings ."Hi, to ft; oi a yard. .".n-iiich all -wool Itlack Canvas Weave Suitings .Tic a yard goods you'd expect to lie at least half a dollar. black Serges from a :s-incu ni-e fin ished serge at is- a yard up to include the tinest imported. $1.25 Kid Gloves, 75c pair, Cluze patent thumb, gussetted fingers, imperial point stitching on back l-ui pearl buttons to mateu tan, red tan. brow n. slate, mode, navv, blue. Mack an unusual chance for you afforded 1 y 1 the greatest Kid Clove deal weevermade ; new gloves made for this season :!1U0 ! pairs send us your order (don't forget j size) and we'll send you the 1-est glove value you ever saw. Cloak Koom is in coicr-lcte readiness t-i supply your w ants in that line to the advantage of your pocketliook. BOGGS & BUHL Allegheny, Pa. j to lie of the first iiiinortiim-e It 3 3 L - XT ll -..-.--,' . , Hi- 'II, t. ..'! ' -.'j- !n 'ii, i ': ..-;- i)jli-.- t - f iV:-. A; ' c .-..-1v,7 V 7. fo'-ii'--v; -i W0mi$$Zf VL." xeSXti&W Vt - mlV.X.i , . drJ 'TM . s: jr i ttW J .- ' - vr- 'ffiv-? - ten 1 .. j f- ;,! v 'Y;llV,'lyE All we jOO'J rum", n-,.n : : i-.x-c-- .EXAMINE TKC CINDERELLA BEFORE YOU EUY j JAM 1:S IS. HOLDhKliAUM, Soniersit. Ri.j 1847. s. w fi. j VA- Old Reliable Pharmacy, YOUR CHOICE OF PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND TOILET ARTICLES. When you have a Cough .When you are suffering frca or Cold Use j a Severe Pain u 3d J3 v;-. '.' j.' ' I -.1 ' ! i I 1 .. I ' 1 H U U LS ' COUQi-1 USE euros rui'c".'. TI;:;r i- v:; ;t :t rrrt m ! fi.r. I'n.nii.:. v:i-.-. u;e. .i. : !i rcli.'f. (vili-k i-tirt'. J : ;. tr- to tr.vo. i ' f'-iilln-i h! i- -.i-.-.-.rA ilUo it. . M-ither-5 1.tiy it :' -r t'.-.ir .:.:;-.!r.-n. . : . rm Wit- Liil.o ii. :.v ..-1 r--. i.xi- i r.. cs l:tt.ie i)..is- J " Fine Cigars of Import::! und Do- rare Wines and Liouo: s !'; mestio Brandr. cal purposes only. I'ul.l;- St.iti -ri f.-r I. - a-! 1 ljr.g I'i-t ii'. r Ti-'i i li--no 'inn.'.: i iioiiits i-i tin- I'n.'.v -l St i;i. Brings Something- New ! A Riding or Walking Spring Tooth Marrow. (fffij X -Itt s- - :C. ' Xo dra'tii of frame on t!:o jrromiil. Tlio lililer-t "'; i1. '- i'i itelf of trah as ea.-ily a hay rake. Hui ? as liirl.t a mau on a other-? do without a Ii-ail. CALL AND SEE IT. WE GUARANTEE IT THE EE5I IN THE WORLD. j Sold on j R Somerset, I 'I II . II ' Ft mm,. .A r Quinn's Bier Store!! We Are Showing a Splendid Line of NEW FALL' DRESS GOODS Cln Black and Colors. ONTAININlJ r.ivert Cloth, Tini-Mne.1 T ills, liniiey.-omli nml im- ; il:tin ainl roii:li shuy surfa.-i-s, in isniil.ini'.tion of silk mul w.s.l. m IW'1 , ,,ry, Civii) th s;.khis an irri.l.s-ont etlVct. Two an.l tliri'i'-t.-m-.l ri.- ' inirs. Mliny of tin new khmIh art wovi'ii in two am! thr- i-lors, U1"" i-hamclis.ii etVi-iit, whii-h is ry pn'tty. Tlios tf.i:ls r entirely ililferef.t ir-"11 in the city. Tiii-es are u ny jln low those of last season. JAMES QUINN, Johnstown, F It is a Grcaf , f CornfortrrCr to a t::v. !' u" :;:, ) ham; a " :-:'. :.. c thi o ; f y -s : I, oi.e f t'e: ttii-- J ' rf-'-t !. f .r ii-.u .ii ' 1 i:sc, - r . la.xrl.tt. Ail '!'' ! ' i .! : ' v . i;:f 'irj-mTfl ::.!- -t. 'i . ; ftviVi'- t r- in- ' ' ' ' .' :e- ! ri i.ri' my !.. i ' '. ' ; ' li-jVi li.j --!. Products ihc Create! From iho Lcczt Fvl,' . The C -M -i ir : i -h . :i fr r !ui,---i! f:r-.:!-.-;i t ..- Prevents Cold fLoc.-.c ) And c-M..:M,s , - Will Burn An, X.nJ of Coo" w:il Keen Fir Ttnt-fuv i-.-i- ) ! . i be Used as a Smqi- r.r O' -. 1896. I aj- A w a &jcV- r?o y f J i DAY Trial 3 a. Carbon G.:rlri .r. i as ii c i. si. ivc n : il.i--.-: Absolutely Air f Tight. I'. (jr.- ii- ::;. l-.:i-n I., r -" fit li -r - il ' ; il.-u:.:.- In-.:. . Ai Entirely fi' Stove . it l:i l'll ' I llus i n.i : s. : f ,.fl.. .-. .a ! tin- v. r: !. j A hiii.ii'.iiiii " ! .' I tin- .-a-tiPi.'- ; 1 Cur1-.. li i. i L lll.llx i n-j I 'lr-: ' '' IT.IM.I !;. ' -' l'ri-i ti..i,'..r:- iiii' -ri..r . -tin i-l.i-s. ".-' it : I - i v i.i.ly i y P. A. SCHcLL, Somerse:, rib i '. - n :1.x. S r it : v f B1 i td Ur !o( d V ton wit Vii J exi j we I , l f Pi I Vi nn 1 tri l-Tt f Th f noi ir f 1 I oiTi tin: em I vil' the 5 I 1.1? r 5") i S S8.. f F hn ? for I Ch bis 3iO 1 Wi! vi nni IU hui er i A Ion d? Its h ti..-! ed at Pa' WlY da: AIM Ci- Ki el f-j I wi: or etui i: Li.i r c r rr-f . Lai up. ) fcr u; ti Ui ia : i lo p. art tue Fis bri d. w tit ers M r :.- )i I ! i1t u i - u ti, "4 1 i i . i