The Somerset Herald.
EPV7A.RD SCULL. Editor and Proprietor.
WEDXKSDAY-
J i 'st now the farmer is happy, and
lien the farmer atuiles the rest of the
country can rejoice.
Ths country breathes frwmow and
is willing to give iU Congress a good,
long vacation.
TuosK are great gold stories that
come from Alaska, but people gener
ally are resigned to an over production
of the yellow metal.
The Republicans have Uen in pow
er four months, and can already claim
that they are giving the country a
business men's administration.
Marvuxh's wheat crop is 4,0iin,000
bushels larger than last ytar and the
price is much higher. Prosperity
items are growing as plentiful as black
berries. Does any one suppose that if silver
had been discovered in the Klondyke
region it would have caused the eager
excitement to go there and get it that
gold has occasioned ?
The discovery of a large lake of -troleum
in Alaska comes along with a
greatly increased excitement aliout
gold d-osits in the territory. Not
many Americans are sorry that we
annexed Alaska.
The United States coined iu the
year ending July 1 more than twice as
many silver dollars as came from the
mints duriug the whole existence of
the country prior to the crime of T7:.
There is no immediate danger that the
silver dollar will become a forgotten
coin.
A;aixst Mr. Bryau's assertion that
there is only $3K),0I0,(!M in circulation
in this country, the treasury reports
have the audacity to declare that the
total circulation on the first of this
month was fl.i.OiS.i'W. The i'ies
tiou, therefore, is: Does Mr. Ilryau
know even remotely what he is talking
about, or is the government a liar?
Jrsr now General Coffroth has
troubles of his own. There is a Demo
cratic Coun'y Auditor to be apjiointed,
The "fakirs" would highly appreciate
the compliment, General, if you were
to recognize them by naming one of
their numU-r. It is about the only
way w- can see of their getting any of
the oflices they so greatly covet.
The opening of the Yukon gold
fields has started a discussion of the
projier spelling of Klondike. This is
the spelling given on the government
maps, but on other maps it appears as
Klondyke, Clondike and Clondyke.
The word is an Indian name, and
means deer. Still, to the men going
there in search of gold, the spelling
will count for nothing. They would
lie just as willing to pick up the nug
gets under one name as the other.
Objections to the "fake" certificate
of nomination of Adam 6. Miller as
Director of the Poor and John II
Shafer as Jury Commissioner, were
filed in the Court of Common Pleas
Monday by Manasses Hhumaker and
Kphraim Coleman. While Messrs.
Hiumaker and Coleman do not object
to the "fake" candidates tieing placet!
on the official ballot under some ap
propriate party name of their own
choosing, they do object to their names
U-ing placed in the Republican col
umn.
Hexator Quay's "fiery cross" will
1 liorne throughout Uie State of Penn
sylvania much earlier than was gener
ally existed. He has announced his
intention to submit the question of
his re-election to the I'nited Rates
Senate to the people of the State, to le
voted upon at the county elections
next spring. Senator Quay made this
statement to Benjamin K. Focht, a
member of the State House of Repre
sentatives, a few days ago when he vis
ited Senator Quay at Washington. Iu
order to carry out the proposed plan.
Senator Quay will have to register in
every couutj- in the State and pay the
r.anilar fee to have his name printed
u the liallot sheets.
Coxsiiiekahi.e conjecturing is King
indulged in these warm flays as to
what name the "fakirs" will select to
designate their county ticket when
they fully awake to the realization that
Manasses Hhumaker and Ephraim
Coleman are the regular Republican
nominees, and, as such, will tie placed
in the Republican column on the offi
cial ballot this fall. As the law con
fines the party appellation to three
words, a number f t lie names suggest
ed cannot le considered. Among those
suggested and deemed by some appr
priate are: "Kooser's Own Party;''
'Assistant Democratic Party;" OUl
tinie Kickers' Party;" "Fakirs' and
Diorganir' Party." It is none of
ur funeral, but thtt firt nam suggest
ed strikes u as an appropriate on.
Some of the jiersoiial admirers of th
"faW candidate for Jury Commis
eiouwr haT suggested "Bully John's
Party" as a suitabl name, but others
have rejected it as being too suggestive,
Aftr all, it is nt of great moment
what name is selected, as it will not
likely live long even in local political
history. We greatly doubt whether
the new party, by whatever name it
may be called, will poll sufficient votes
to entitle it to a place on the 11 lot
next year. They may decide to go
over, "body and breeches," to their
Democratic allies, aud thus obviate the
necessity of selecting a new party
name.
The passage of the tariff bill re
moves the uncertainty from business.
It clears the road aad enables the dor
mant forces, whatever they may lie, to
. get to work. It is a great thing to
know where one is... Business has not
known this for many months, f or a
long time there was dread of a finan
cial collapse. Then came the Arr of
acliange of the governmental chart
upon which the most imjiortant indus
tries were tL. The latter was made
necessary iiy the former. The govern
ment's credit was threatened lictause
it did not have sufficient revenues. To
r iise additional revenues became im
Ieratlve. It was a disagreeable neces
aity for an administration 'o encounter
at the very threshold of existence, but
there was no shrinking.
The Ite publiean leaders knew quite
as well as other people that a propowd
fc make a sadlcal alteration of the rev
iiue laws would temporarily affect the
weak and halting efforts of trade to
assume normal conditions, but they
also knew that without such on alter
ation there could lie no permanent im
provement In business. The one thing
was dejendent on the other. The op
eration had to lw performed, even if
the patient did wince under it. It has
been performed as skilfully and speed
ily as possible. It is safe to say that as
little harm has been done to the busi
ness of the country by the special ses
sion of Congress as has ever been done
under fimilar circumstances. The
main reason for this was the confi
dence of the people and the prompt
ness of the administration. The peo
ple, after a nst disastrous exjierience
with the opposite party, had restored
the Republicans to power. They had
gone alter strange gods, and experi
enced the folly of doing so. They
knew the Republican party and trust
ed it
The prompt calling of Congress in
extra session strengthened this confi
dence. When tho Cleveland adminis
tration proposed to revolutionize the
industrial policy of the country, it
waited ten months liefore making a
lieginning, aud it was at least seven
teen months before the natural anxie
ty of business was relieved. The only
anxiety to which business has been
subjected on the present occasion has
been the uncertainty as to rates, and
that was largely relieved in less than a
mouth after Congress met. All doubt
is now removed. The bill is a law.
Its rates will certainly prevail for the
next four years, aud there will be noth
ing to disturb the even progress of bus
iness, unless some foolish money craze
is sprung ujion the country to again set
the iieople by the ears. The new tar
iff may not lie everything that every
liody wanted. It is very difficult to
frame that kind of a law. But it is
good enough to form the basis of
prosperity, and it is to be hoped there
will not lie need of another tariff law
for a generation.
FOB SOUKDEB CURRENCT.
The President's Message to Congress Ap
proved ia the Home.
Wasiiisotox, 1. C, July 14. The
President has sent the following message
to Congress :
To the Congress of the Vnited States:
Iu my inoKKtge convening the Congress
iu extraordinary session I called atten
tion to a single object that of providing
revenue adequate to meet the reasonable
aud proper expenses of the tiovernineiit.
I believed that to bo the most pressing
subject for settlement then. A bill to
provide the necessary revenues for the
lioverniiient has already passed the
House of Iteprentatives and the Senate,
aud awaits executive action.
NKEI OF tTBRKSCY ItKVIS! OJf.
Another question of very great import
ance is that of the establishment of our
currency and bauking system on a lietter
baMs, which I commented upon iu my
inaugural address in the following words:
"Our financial system needs some re
vision; our money is all good now, but
its value must not further be threatened.
It should all l put upon au enduring
liasis, not subject to easy attack, nor its
stability to doubt or dispute. The sev
eral forms of our paper money oiler, in
my judgment, a constant embarrassment
to the Government and imperil a sale
balance in the Treasury."
THE rKOM.E'S VKR1IUT.
Nothing was settled more clearly at the
late national election than the determin
ation uion the part of the people to keep
their currency stable in value aud equal
to that of the most advanced nations of
the world.
The soundness of our currency is no
where questioned. No loss can occur to
its holders. It is the system which should
be simplified and strengthened, keeping
our money just as good at it is now, with
less expense to the Government and the
people.
The sentiment of the country is strong
ly in favor of early action by Congress in
this direction, to revise our currency
laws and remove them from partisan con
tentiotu
A notable assembly of business men,
with delegates from 29 States and Terri
tories, was held at ludianapolis in Janu
ary of this year. The financial situation
commanded their earnest attention, and
after a two-days' session the convention
recommended to Congress the appoint
ment of a Monetary Commission.
I commend this report to the considera
tion of Congress. The authors of the re
port rec.immeuded a commission "to
make a thorough investigation of the
monetary affairs and needs of this coun
try in all relations and aspocts and to
make proper suggestions as to any evils
found toexist aud the remedies therefor."
This subject should receive the atten
tion of Congress at its special session.
It ought not to lie p'MtpmeJ until the
regular session.
CHARACTER OF THE COM V ISSIOX.
I therefore urgently recommend that a
special commission lie created, non-parti
sail in its character, to lie composed of
well-informed citizens of dllferent parties
who will command the confidence of
Congress and the country liecause of
theirspecial fitness for the work, whose
duty it shall be to make recommenda
tions of whatever changes in our present
banking and currenry laws may be found
necessary and expedient, and to report
their conclusions oti or liefore the first
day of Xovemlier next, in order that the
same may lie transmitted by me toCon
gress for its consideration at its first regu
lar session.
It is to le hoped that the report thus
mado will lie soeoinpreheimiveand sou. id
as to receive the support of all parties and
the favorable action of Congress. At all
events, such a report cannot fail to lie of
value to the Executive branch of the
Government, as well aa to thocm charged
with public legislation, and to greatly as-
kilt in the establishment of au improved
tyatem of ftcance.
William McKinley.
Kxettutiro Mansion, July 24, 18M7.
Tied Vf By The Thumbs.
Sistkrsvii.i.k, W. Vs., July 23 Six
masked robbers robbed and tortured Mrs.
Soreves, aged 0 years, living iu the vi
cinity of Smithfield. The woman had
received a large sum of money for an oil
lease, and kept it in her house. The
robbers evideutly knew this, and entered
her residence at midnight. She was bound
and gagged while the men searched for
the money. Not being successful they
proceeded to force her to tell where the
money was by torturing. They first tied
her up by the thumlis for a few minutes,
but as that did n it bring the desired re
sult they next lieat her over the back
w ith sw itches aud put lighted candles to
her bare feet The pain forced her to
yield, and she told the robbers where
there was aUsit (VA. After taking it
they again bound and gagged her and
left. The woman was compelled to lie
helpless uutil late tho next morning,
when she was released by a neighbor. A
large posse started out to search for the
robbers, but they have not lieen caught.
The terrible treatment to which Mrs.
Shreves was subjected haa made her verv
ill and she is in a very precarious condi
tion. She had more than f-0 in gold
ami greenlaicks ia the house which the
rob! n did not find.
The ML Pleasant Institute.
The Western Pennsylvania Classical
nd Scientific Institute offers exception
al advantages as a school for the training
of ths young. There are seven courses
of study, including Music and Art.
f.0 cash prise, for full information
writs the principal, II. C. Dixon, ML
Pleasant, Pa.
DIKOLEY'S TARIFF IS LAW.
Passed ia the Senate by a Vote of 40 to
30 Signed by McKinley.
Wakhisotox, I). C, July 24. Presi
dent McKinley signed the Dingley Tariff
law at 4 minutes alter 4 o'clock this after
noon, and to-night at 9 o'clock Congress,
having passed the act for which it was
called in extra session, adjourned until
the first Monday in December. Both
Houses first listened, however, to the
President's Currency Commission mes
sage, the House passing the C. W. Stoue
joint resolution to agree to such a coin
mission, and the Senate ignoring it.
Last of all Speaker ltoed announced
the House Committer, which he has
lieen holding back all through the extra
session. All legislation, including the
Senate resolution to stop the negotiations
between the Government and the Union
Pacific Reorganization Committee, ex
cept the Tariff bill, went over to the reg
ular session.
President McKinley was a very happy
man to-night, and spoke freely aliout his
great gratification at having his tariff
policy so quickly aud satisfactorily car
ried out by Congress.
The President said, after he had signed
his name at the foot of the sixty pages of
parchment, that he wished it understood
by the members of the Cabinet aud the
personal friends who were preseut that
it was not a perfunctory approval which
he had given to the bill, but that he had
never signed anything in his life with
more satisfaction, lie said it was as sat
isfactory as any general revision of the
tariff could be, and in all its main fea
tures met his cordial approval.
It passed the Senate finaUy, through
the adoption of the conference report, as
soon as the roll could be called after 3
o'clock, by a vote of 40 to 30, McEnery
being the only Democrat who voted for
it, and Jones and Stewart being the only
Populists who voted for it, although all
the other Populists except Heilfield, who
was paired against it, refrained from vot
ing, and so did Senator Teller.
The most interesting thing alsmt the
vote, except the majority Itself, was the
fact that Senator llanna, who had at first
voted proudly for the bill he did so much
to make, had tt withdraw his vote when
be was reminded of his general pair
with Ilawlius, of Utah, who was not
present.
Go to Klondike, Says Stewart.
Washisc.tos, I. C, July 22 Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, a Calilornia pioneer,
and for most of his life a miner and deal
er in ml lies, advises young men to go to
Klondike.
"Undoubtedly there is a great wealth
of gold in Alaska," said the Senator to.
day, "but it will take hundreds of years
to exhaust the deinwits which exist
there. The depth of decayed vegetable
life, combined with the almost perpetual
snows of that country, will present ob
stacles x hich even the powerful spirit of
enterprise cannot entirely conquer. It
will never lie like gold mining iu Call
fornia aud Australia. In those countries
the mining districts were open and the
cli mate most favorable.
"It was possible for even a novice to
quickly learn the way to select the most
promising spots for a lse of operation.
The physical aspect of the country was
not hidden by snows as in the case of
Alaska, and men v.uld rapidly gain a
knowledge of where the most likely
places for finding the gold were situated.
In Alaska it will lie different, for there is
only a short season in which the snows
permit a comprehensive idea of what the
country is.
"Thousands will perish lie-ause they
have not the physical nor the moral
stamina to survive. Yet even this array
of difficulties should not frighten young
men who have really determined to seek
their fortunes in Alaska. If they do not
find fortunes in the gold fields, there are
many lines of work opened up by the
great gold boom.
"The boom will lie good for the West,
for it will take young men to that coun
try who are filled with the spirit of en
terprise, and these young men will make
a place for themselves even if they do
not find enough in Alaska to bring them
wealth. It will make men of them if
they survive the struggle, and that is
mor to be desired than a weak and grad
ual degeneration, which is sapping the
life and energy of the idle men of the
EiisL
"The cost to great corporations in min
ing gold in Alaska will lie so great that
they will not control the mines there for
many years to come, California was
gone over quickly, and the inevitable
ownership of mines by companies was
corresjMindingly rapid.
"The Alaskan climate and other nat
ural otiKtacles will operate to prevent
this in the newly discovered gold coun
try. This will give the placer miner a
much better chance for many years to
come than was ever enjoyed by the pio
neers of '4!t iu California. These things
should eucourage men of good health
and stout hearts to try their fortunes in
the Alaskan gold fields."
Went Into Effect ea Saturday.
Washixotox, July 2H. The Secretary
of the Treasury holds the new tariff act
was in effect at the lieginning of the day
on which it received the approval of the
President, and therefore became opera
tive after midnight Friday, July JEM.
Assistant Secretary Day sent the follow
ing telegram to collectors of ciisUmiis:
"liepartineiit holds that new tariff law
covers and includes all customs business
on July 21th."
Iater in the day a formal circular of
instructions covering more fully the de
partment's views on the subject will le
printed and mailed to all customs col
lectors. The opiuion of the Attorney
General has not been requested on the
matter, the department holding that the
question is not of sufficient importance
to justify them in taking it to the courts
for final determination, independent of
what the views of the law officers of the
government might be as to the merits of
the case.
Farm For Sale!
F. P. Saylor and Herman Shaffer, ad
ministrators of John Shaffer, late of Som
erset township, Somerset county, I'a.,
will receive sealed bids at the office of
John It. Sontt, Somerset, Pa., up until
Tuesday, the 10th day of August, 1SOT,
for the sale of the lste homestead of said
deceased, situate in Somerset township.
containing 'ill acres more or less, on the
following terms: down, 1 in 0 months,
i in 12 mouths; deferred payments to lie
secured on the premises by judgment
bonds.
Te Kival Xirades.
Bostox, Mass., July 24. Dr. II. A
Mclean, a Presbyterian clergyman, of
Portland, Maine, announces that if given
the no-easary permit be will demonstrate
that what Christ had done could lie done
again; that be would suffer himself to
be buried in a coffin under three or four
feet of earth, and remain there for forty
days without food or water. He spe-eifb-ally
stated that there would lie no
tube or communication with the open
air, such as has lieen nsed where per
sons under hypnotic influence have lieen
interred.
'I shall arrange, provided the neces
sary permit is granted," he said, "for
the construction of a coffin under my own
direction. There will be apertures in
the sides of this coffin which will admit
what air may percolate through the por
ous ground which I will select, Aa a
guarantee against any trickery or sub
terfuge, I will deposit flow as reward
for the discovery of any trickery." 1 he
experiment is to be tried at Kivorton.
Me, i
Vers Vetoes.
The Becker thrce-fiths bill, which re
quired all appointments by the mayor of
Philadelphia, to tie approved by a three
fifths vote in select councils, was vetoed
by the Governor. This gives the mayor
greater power than is exercised by the
president, the governor or the mayor of
other cities. The attempt of the Governor
to make it appear that this measure was
utterly destitute of merit, is not a great
success.
A veto for constables.
The Governor also disapproved the bill
amending section 2 of the act to regulate
aud establish the fees of justices of the
peace, aldermen, magistrates and consta
bles, approved May ift, Mtt, so as to regu
late feos of constables. Regarding this
bill the governor says: "The present
depressed condition of business affairs
furnishes the strongest argument against
such an increase at this time. No facta
or reasons have been furnished to me
which satisfy me that the proposed read
justment of constable -fees is reasonable,
or that any revision whatever is necessa
ry." ormk bill vetoed.
The Orme bill has been vetoed by Gov
ernor Hastings, The measure Imposed a
ten per cent, lax on the face value of all
orders, cliecks, dividends, coupons, pass
books, or other paper representing tl:e
earning of any employe not paid in cash
to tho employe or member of his family
and provided a penalty for failure to re
port annually to the auditor general. The
governor says: "If the purpose of the
measure is to raise revenue for the state
it has elected the pinched wages of the
lalioring man from which to derive a por
tion of its income. If the purpose be to
make the several employers of labor de
scribed in the bill pay the tax then the
purpose is entirely mistaken because in
its practical operation the laboring man
and not the company must eventually
pay the tax.
The Kunkel fire alarm bill, which re
quired theatres, school houses, mercan
tile establishments, hospitals and hotels
to be provided with a fire alarm system
to connect with the municipal system was
vetoed on tho ground that it is better to
leave to the municipalities the freedom
which they now have to adopt such sys
tem and such appliances as they may
deem liest, unhampered aud uncontrolled
by any act of assembly.
The Cornerstone Found.
On the UKIi iiiKt., the long-looked-for
cornerstone of the burned Capitol build
ingat HarrislHirg was found. A state
ment of the contents is as follows:
II uitisnf ri. Pa., May .'!!, 119.
The corner stone of the Capitol of the
Stale of Pennsylvania was this day laid
by William Kindlay, (iovernor; George
Bryan, Auditor General; Richard M
Crain, State Treasurer; John B. Gibson
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
William Gray don, commissioner an
pointed by the General Assembly to
superintend the execution of the work
Stephen Hills, architect; Valentine Kir
gan aud Samuel White, masons; Willii-.m
Smith, stone cutter.
There are also herewith deposited the
following mentioned documents: Char
ter of Charles II. to William Penn; Dec
laration of Independence; Constitution oi
Pennsylvania, lull; Articles of Confeder
ation and Perpetual Union between the
seven States; a copy of so much of au act
of General Assembly of Pennsylvania by
which indemnity was made to the heirs
of William Penn for their Interest in
Pennsylvania; treaty of peace and ac
knowledgement by Great Britain cf the
independency of the United States; Con
stitution of the United States, 187; Con
stitution of Pennsylvania, 17H0; act of the
legislature of Pennsylvania, by which
the seat of government was removed
from Philadelphia to Lancaster and Har
risburg, and building of State Capitol at
the latter, authorized by the Government
of Pennsylvania in lsl!i.
William Fixolat, Governor.
Thomas Skkokant, Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
James Tkimiii.e, Deputy Secretary of
the Commonwealth.
Isaac Weaver, Speaker of the Senate.
Kkks Hill, Speaker of the House,
At which time James Monroe was
President and Daniel D. Tompkins Vice
President of the Unite.: States.
Aa Outrage Upon Taxpayers.
The trustees of the Iehigh University
say that unless they get the State appro
priation they will have to close the
school. Then they had better close. If
the university must be supported out of
the State treasury then its continuance
would tie an outrage upon the taxpayers
of the State, as they certainly do not
mean to support as a part of their educa
tional system universities such as I-e-
high, or the University of Pennsylvania.
There is a constant complaint among the
people whether justly founded or not
aliout taxation and with respect to our
common schools many people believe
that the State has attempted too much.
when it has provided that this system
shall receive the large annual appropria
tion which it now receives. It is under
stood that the appropriations made this
year to the State Normal School are tho
last which these schools will receive, al
though they are employed daily in the
instruction of teachers, aud that hereafter
State Normal Schools, like other private
schools, where tuition is paid, will re
ceive no aid from the Stale. And this is
righL The Telegraph has frequently
said there is no good reason why one or
two universities in the State should re
ceive money from the State treasury that
es not obtain in the case of all the col
leges, academies and private educational
institutions in tho State. During the last
ten years the system of indiscriminate
distribution of public funds has obtained
to such an extent that to-day the treas
ury is unable to meet its eugagaments.
A new system ought to be adopted; ami
at once, and it is gratifying to know that
Governor Hastings indicates a disposi
tion to make a beginning. Public opin
ion is strongly opposed to the State sup
plying funds for many of the institutions
now receiving aid, and the clamor of per
sons Interested in these institutions
ought not to blind the eye of Governor
Jlast'mgs to the fact that disinterested
public opinion condemns all these appro
priations. If Iyehigh University has no
means to continue its existence then it
ought to lie abandoned and its students
can be educated in any of the thousands
of other educational institutions of the
country Harrisbnrg Telegraph.
Spend Tour Vacation at the Sea Shore. -
Low Kates via 8. k 0.
The Baltimore A Ohio Railroad an
noum-es another oue of those popular
reduced rate excursions to Atlantic City,
Cape May, Sea Isle City and Ocean City,
Thursday, August 5th. The same excel
lent train arrangements that proved so
satisfactory on the previous trips will be
repealed. The tickets are good twelve
days and will permit a stop-off at Wash
ington on the return journey.
We show below the train schedule and
rates from points iu this vicinity:
time. time. bate.
ronnellgvlllr 4. a. m. 10JM p. in. fio.no
tlllto I'ylm 10.11 113 " H..K)
i lonucnM. lu-ai -
Itorkwootl lo.iS liis a. in.
Johus'owa S.m - 2 10 p. in.
Hniui-mrt lfl.02 s U
.Meyrivdale It-lil li47 a. va.
Hyndinan " "
t uinUrland li7 p. m 2.15
.no
v-i;
V.oO
S..V0
KID
7-M
Correspondingly low rates from other
points.
Pullman Parlor Cars on day train;
sleeper on night train.
For further information address near
est B. v. O. Agent.
Oregon's Great Wheat Crop.
Portlaxo, Ore July 23. Advices
from every wheat-growing county in Ore
gon show that the wheat crop will lie the
largest in the history of the State. The
total crop will amount to about 1S,0",000
Irtishels. The wheat appears to be of ex
llent quality.
Died to Get Gold.
Great Falls, Mont, July 2k-Frank
Moss, an old liinc miner in this section,
who four years ago was one of a party of
Americans to first visit the Klondike
country, returned to-day and tells a story
of horrors and starvation seldom equaled,
even In modern novels.
He describes the Klondike as a placer
camp, seven miles 1-jngsnd thirteen miles
wide, located in a sink, walled in by
boulders of rock 3UO0 feet high. Gold,
he says, abounds, but no ordinary man
can stand the hardshiis of the uncivilized
region. When Moss left here fHir year
ago hn was a sturdy fellow over six feet
tall. From hardships aud privations lie
(s a cripple for life and badly broken in
health.
SAW 204) ORAVES IX KLOXniKE.
In three years he saw over graves
made in Klondike lias in, a large majority
dying from starvation. The steamship
companies bring In all food and allow no
private importation. Consequently it is
not uncommon to go for weeks with but
a scant supply and for days-entirely
without food. The gold brought in last
week to Seattle, Moss says, does not rep
resent the findings of individual shippers,
but a largo proportion was confiscated
from the effects of those 'Jomi miners who
fell a prey to the hardships. At tho death
of the man possessed of dust, his tiody
was buried without a colli n and the dust
divided among those who cared for him.
With proper reliefs established by the
Government, Moss says, gold can lie taktn
at the rate of 2,0U),0uo a mouth.
To which wou Id you prefer to belong
The regular, undoubtedly. The irregu
lars are, admittedly the most numerous,
but they are in a very undesirable state
of no discipline. H-tetter's Stomach Bit
ters will sion remedy this want in a dis
ordered liver or bowels. Biliousness
manifests itself in yellowness of the skin
and eyelialls, sour breath, furred
tonguo, morning nausea, discomfort in
the vicinity of the liver, vertigo and sick
headache. Hosts of people suffer thus.
Those signs of insubordination to the
goverance of health, together with an ir
regular condition of the bowels, art soon
regulated by the Bitters, which also
overcomes malaria, dyspepsia, rheuma
tism, neuralgia, nervoiisuess and kidney
trouble, Asa means of checking prema
ture dtssy, hasteuiug eoiivles-cm-e, and
mitigating tho infirmities of age, the
grat touic is without a parallel.
V.to These.
Jude Samuel II. Miller, of Merctr
county, makes a very practical suggestion
to the governor.
lie says: "It is commendable in the
governor in reducing tho appropriations
by his veto power so as to bring the ex
penditures within the income. Will you
explain to your readers by the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, the richest educa
tional institution in tho state, should re
ceive one quarter of a million from the
state; and Iyehigh university tJM""f
Why should the governor hagglo over
a few hundred dollars, when bv two
vetoes, which the common people ill
heartily indorse, ho can save half a mil
lion? Why should these two institution-,
any more thau Washington and Jellcnu-n,
Westminister, Allegheny college, Grovs
City college, and a score of other college
in the slate receive state aid?"
Excursioa to Chautauqua, K. T. Low
Kates via B. 0.
The B. A O. Royal Blue Line has ar
ranged an excursion to Chautauqua, N.
Y., Monday, August 2 1, via Pittsburg.
We give below tho time of trains and
rate of fare from points in this vicinity.
Tickets good uutil September 1st.
timk.
2.1)2 a. ni.
HATH-
T.H'l
7.M)
7.K".
.!
7.1.-.
h HI
5.7
53)
IlvPdmnn
Mcverwlaie
lUtrkwnod... 3 2S "
KoiiH-rsei X12 p. m.
Johiistiwu 2 HI
roiltlllence 3.4a 111.
IVlllllelll'Ville 4.7
W est Ni'wl n 5i
McKwiport . 5is
Correspondingly low rates from other
points.
lHui't forgot the date August 2L
The Coal Strike.
The probability of the suo-ess of the
miners' strike is yet problematical,
though the chances seem to lie in favor of
a lailure. At this time there are about
Ti.uuo men on strike and aliout UiO.OOU yet
at work. It is also to be noted thai a
laige nuiuberof thxe who have struck
have done so through the persistent per
suasions of their loaders.
The fact that the West Virginia miners
will strike most reluctantly if at all, is
best evidenced by the fact that most of
them have stood out against the strike
thus far in the face of tho most earnest
appeals to passion and prejudice, by the
ablest agitators who are in the pay of the
men whose interests they are eomieIlcd
to sacrifice at timrs to maintain their own
importance as lalior leaders.
From Blindness to Active Business ia
Twenty-Eight Bays.
one year ago Mr. A. M. Cunningham,
Ottawa, Kansas, found himself blind in
one eye from cataract and the other fail
ing rapidly. He had the ono operated
upon by an occulist in St. Joe, Mo., re
sulting in a painful confinement and a
totally blind eyo. The other was now
ton blind to do business. He then came
to Pittsburg for the express purpose of
placing himself under tho skillful care of
Dr. Sadler, Xn4 Penn avenne, whose rep-
utatiou for success in cataract has extend
ed throughout the length and breadth of
the United States. Tho result in this cae
added another laurc! to tho doctor's cred-
iL Mr. C. never having hail any pain
either with the operation or after iL In
three weeks he could read tho finest
print, ami in four weeks was out on the
prairies of Kansas selling reapers. The
doctor has lost but three cases out of the
last 113 of all ages a percentage cer
tainly worthy of consideration. No sea
son of tho year more favorable than now
Kidgeview Camp Keeling, Hear Mill
wood, Fa.
For the annual camp meeting to I e
held at Ridegview Park, Pa., August 7 to
Ifi, 1C, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will sell excursion tickets at re
duced rates from Altoona, Pittsburg,
Fai reliance, Freeport, and intermediate
stations, to M ill wood, August S to lis in
elusive, good to return until Augast 1W,
1N!I7, inclusive. Arrangements have also
been mado for tho stopping of a large
number of trains at Ridgeview during
the continuance of the camp, and the tun
ning of special trains on Sunday, A r gust
15, from Concmaugh, Fairchance, Trail g-
er, and Iudiana. For time of these trains
consult ticket agents or large posters.
Cereal Coffee Drinkers BEWARE!
If you have lieen deceived and tried
one of the cheap bran substitutes now on
the market, claiming to be the original
and to have great food value, and you got
a pound of poorly roasted bran for your
2oc and a poor, weak, sickish drink
(what can you expect from Lran), don't
be discouraged but try GRAIN-O. It is
made from solid grain, nicely browned
and .1 pounds for Grain-O takes the
place of coffee at the price. Get a pack-
eof yjur g rocer to-day.
G. A. B, EHCAMPXEHT, BUFFALO
Half Kates via Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the National Kncarnpment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Buffalo,
August 2:1, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will sell special tickets from
all points on its system to Buffalo and
return at rate of a single (are for the
round trip. These tickets will be sold
and will be good going on August 21 to
2X and good to return not earlier than
August 24 nor later than August "1, IT..
Look Out for a Vtry Blick SwinVier.
Kltttinniii TiiniT,
Two mcmlier of tho United StiiteH Se
cret Service were In town this week,
looking Tor a very bright young man,
who is having a good lime on money so
cured in an illegitimate manner, lie
stole some time ago one hundred snd
twenty-four blank post-office outers, nnd
he drops into a country town, waiU un
til the post-otlice is closed, and then vis
its a store, makes a purchase, and givis
the merchant a filled-out money order
receiving the difference in money. The
young man passed such au ordor for fif
teen dollars on one of our merchants last
Friday evening and the secret servii-o
were here after him. They have follow
ed him several hundred miles, but, as ho
only operates one or two days each wewk
and takes big jumps, they have been
unable to capture him.
Gen. John A. Login.
The John A. Ixignn monument, in
Chicago, was dedicated with great omp
and ceremony on Thursday. Twenty
thousand people were in line, the. parade
being over two hours in passing tho re
viewing stand. With the Union veterans
marched 2no ex-confederates. Behind
these southerners marched 2,iio(l regu
lars. The statue of Geueral Ixig-in was de
signed by SL Gaudcns aud is the largest
equestrian statuo in America. He ap
pears dressed in the uniform of a major
general.
Sick Headache
Permanently Cured
"I was troubled, a long time, with
8ick headache. It was usually ac
companied with severe pains in tha
temples and sickness at the stom
ach. I tried a good many remedies
"V recommended for
L ifasi'y this complaint; but
it was not unlit i be
gan taking
AYER'S
, Tills that I received
anything like k nna-
PC
nent lieiielit. A sin
gle liox of these pills did the work
for me, and I am iiow a well man."
U. II. HnriiiMiS, Vast Auburn, Me.
For the rapid cure of Constipa
tion. IysH psia, Rilioiisness, Nau
sea, and all disorders of Stuinacli,
IJver, and Rowels, take
Cathartic Pills
Medal aad Diploma at World's Fair.
Aik fosr tfraggitt lor Ajer't Saruparilla.
prices
are having telling effect
on this
shelf emptying
we made the kind that would it's a
thorough clearing of every surplus stock
nothing Isimbastic nor artificial aliout
it, but straight-forward earnestness from
the word go samples and prices show it
and demonstrate what a chaiti-e it, is to
get choice goods at prices never Is-fore
equaled.
Here are instans?s of what's being
done :
dress goods
AH wool checks, 2iV.
Silk and winiI, and all wool mixt
ures, 2.m
52 inch checks, all won, 2V.
Fine Novelty Iirexs Good and
Suitings, .loc,
wash goods
Fine Zeyhyr Ginghams, h)c.
luiMrted liimilies, neat printings.
Its-.
Fine Imorted Madras, spl.-u li 1
for shirt waists, 8, 10, l"i, 2.V.
other iniHirtaut values iu good and
pretty and useful wash gissls, at .
01, 7. S, Hi, 12! to 20c.
silks and
black goods
a distribution such as only the chi-ice
kinds offered at the prices can bring
alifmt rii.in!s'r it's choice g'M Is we're
talking about.
Write for full information aliout I.ace
Curtains, Suits, Children's Garments and
arything we can't send samples of.
When we can send samples we always
do.
BOGGS & BUHL
Allegheny, Pa.
MOUNT UNION COLLEGE,
ALLTANCK, OlIIO-
Collega CotiiUJs : Classical, Soientiflo, Philosophical, Literary.
Other Departments :-Preparatory, Normal, Commercial, Music,
Art, Elocution, Short-hand and Type-writing, etc.
Fall Term Opens Aug. 31, Expenses Low. Send for Catalogue,
L. DOUGLAS
Vrhanta,
Hankers,
lawyers,
1'hviii Jans
anl all
economical
men wrar
W. l Douglas
Shoe lm-auM the
are tha best.
For aala by
J. D. MILLER & SONS, Agents,
HOCKWOOD, PA;
"sTWWMfslMKM M MMM rurararnrar w w w m wmm...
i OllffsfPI 4 Flrtt
E GIVEN
4 First
20 Second"
40ThW
FREE
g EACH MONTH
g (Dunr., 1397) OllllllflL SOAP
Q T"t particulars send yonr name and fall addrcMto A r.rrr-
WlW.LtdUadsonilturLioaS.A.KewVoik. VVKAPPCKO
iyjsj The papers arc fuQ
1 M W.
of deaths from
Heart
Failure
Of course
I'.u h.-a t faib act
T. Srn a rr.in J1
H-t
'I! -rl Y.cJ-3 e," n caIVi, nine
l".m cci t ? t:n b ciu:d ?y Uric
Acii in tlic llocd which the Kidneys
f ii! U r.rrujvj, and which corroek
S!;4 lcort until it tccomcs unaLle to
---- jm iij f unction.
1 L.-i!:h Oti'ocn h many ciiks very
-rjpc'.y rJcJC to accept "lieirt Fail
ure," a a cause cf c-cith. It is fre
quer! a sij of ignorance In the
jhyjlan, or may be given to cover
tip th real cause.
A Mioicice with 20 Ytars of
. . Success behind it . .
will remove live poisonous Utic Acid
fcy pulling the Kidneys In a healthy
condition to that they will naturally
eliminate it.
Jos. Home & Co.
o o
W This is the fourth week of the
J greatest selling of gKsl goods
ever known in Western IVnn- 5
O sylvania. We not only have the J
0 freshest, leanest, choicest stock
O whi'-li ever was offered at liargain S
q prices, but we are putting prices J
O on it w hii-li have never liefore Leeu
X heard of.
r. We mention a few just as sain-
pies. There are hundreds of oth-
X ers.
9. 2
p Ami, cheap as these are, v
J en n i'i u r cent, under llieusmil, JjJ
J wehuvna KKMVAN r HAY (very O
Jx Thursday il.irin thesw iinniths, at X
w hich limes iv have Hers to v
show you which in.iko even these J
prices seem 1 areo in proportion.
5 Coino. in, if you inn. If you con-
not, ycud f-T lntnver it m that O
yon ii'-c l, hi, 1 .r-,.-ir.. to Kittl.e
O lowest prk-i . nn ever knew of. o
O l'n i.i li Urg.i::i!:cj .V cent kinds,
at l.t cents a y;ird; Irish liimiticx,
ft new styles ami patterns. i,'t cent
sort, nt 12 cents; cent and T.
V reiit Printed India Silks at X't cents
f a yard; Imported Woolen lrehs
O Goods, fl.ui to 2.0u sorts, at "i0
fi rents a yard.
525-527 PENN AVE-,
PITTSDL'RG.
HAVE YOU A SON
TO MKX1I To tVLLKGE?
The Kiskiminetas Springs School,
( VI inilisi cast of I'itlslitino
pis-pure vouni; men for any Collide or fcl
enliiic SciitNtl. -.vii mt yer.
t I si us scud you our iutu!oue.
WILSiiX F.MIU Sa:tsliur-i, l a-
The record of the past la
the future's guarantee.
FORTYTHREE
MILLION
$$$$$D0LLARS!i
Of SURPLUS backs
every contract of....
THE EQUITABLE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
and the earning power of a com
pany, as n-presenn-d in its acctinin
hveil surplus, is the guarantee of
what that company is going to bo
able to pay when its contracts
come due.
HAVE YOU AN r
F.QL'IT.H'.LK lt il.ICY
EDWARD A. WOODS, Manager,
PlTTSKUSsiH.
L. FOSDICK, General Agent,
Somerset, Ta.
a:
WVjlUU VII Via JZsji
The StvU. Fit ami Wear st
could not b improved tor f7 ' f
If. L. Douglas S3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes are the
productions of skilled workmen, from the best ma
terial possible to put into shoes sold at these prices.
We make also iZO and $2ub shoe tor men, and
$2.50, $2.00 and $1.75 for boys, and the V. L.
Douglas $3.50 Police shoe, very suitable for
letter-earners, policemen and others having
much walking to do.
We are constantly atliline new stylet to nnr
alrru'lv large varu lv. and there no n-a-
m thy vou cannot Im nileil. in lit nn
hayinc V. L. Douglas Shot from )our
deakr.
We km only tlio best Talf. Rniwia Talf
(all oilorm. French Patent (air,
trench Knainrl. Vici klii, etc..
(Trailed to corrrgioud with ricv
ol the !ioe.
If dealer cannot snpiljr yoo.
w'lCOUGLAS. Brockton, Mass.
Catalouu att.
Prim 3rh nf ttnn r,.t. 2
Prtos, each of $100 Cash.
$100 Fiorct Special Bicjcles. 2
at
" fc$25Bo!dWalche$.
FOR
Why
Riilc in an
cl a new ono at almost your
price at
James B. Holderbaum's?
WW
My
uggles
or Road Wnjjon.
to show ni' line.''
Call and
J.
rue-
B
i jsV "
A COOKING '
STOVE
With a square oen and all the advanta
ges of a rai)K ilh"iit t he t-Uiw
draft neeesftary to Uai'U;
eiiistrutioii.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
P. A. Schell.
1847.
Call and
try a
drink of
our
Ice Cold
Soda.
OURSUPPLY OF FLAVORS WILL SATISFY THE
MOST FASTIDIOUS.
TAP THE SODA SI-RING.
G. W. BEIMFOSD,
MANAGER, SC V1ERSET, PA.
HELLO!
HOUSEKEEPERS,
IN WANT OF FUBNITURE?
LOCK AT THESE PRICES.
A Bedroom Set for $13 00. A Tarlor Set for $12 00
A Coucn for - 7 00. A Louttgo for - -1 0
A Rocking Chair for 50 cts.
Cuiiboartln, TaMi1, iVtlstcail.-, I'liairs, Ac, at iiroMrt innate iri-. ('.nn-iil
We are in line for i7 i i!li (lie init tunijiU to ami up-tvl:ite line nf Kur:i:i
Ilaeiil Ufum the market :ml ri'jarel to l;iw the tn.le a lari' variety f "l
and original tU-signs line anl tueiliuni CIkuiiUt Suit.-, Parlor Siiii-, K! "': 'a
Tahles ami Iitiim; t'li:iirs, SiileUmrils, Chiironiers, r.ike:ises, l'hin:i t
t'ouehes, warilniU-s, ete.
tiiaal iiiiality, low riii1'. Ymi are invited to ea'.l and insinrt our .stock.
C. H. Coffroth,
GOG M?'n Cross Street,
SNYDER'S
We Are Offering: the Best Possible Investment for Your
...Dollars......
We arc irking to show the poodle of Somerset the largest and most tMinrh'11' "
Iticyeliw ever shown in eity. ,.
WeaiecoiiiKtost.ll tho MONAUril r.ICYCI.E at !.".() per year
ehoi- of any enamel. Wp also h:ive a line -f ('!1) WAVKIil.i t
I.KS at f IH not tHiy until
iu several days.
oM bniriry when von ca f
Comprise everything t!:at is
New, Stylish and U'L
You get the Finish and 0:;a!;.
ty when yoi buy from r;e,
either Surrey, Phaeton. II :- -
examine my stock. !v. trov.'e
B. HOLDERBAUM.
We are :' t.s ,
ee!el,r;tt. 1 ,,f
STOVES a ft o
RANGES.
They :ir,
wirHOjrA'iEuu
in nini;. i j
A luting ;-;::-.
jirrfet t in '! v
tail.
1897.
MADE
FROM
PURE
FRUIT
JUICES.
7 v
- J. "v. -
SOMERSET, PA
ART STORE.
o
5
6 r
A1 tf!i 4 fof A Ti i Sv
you liave t'H our wUeel. er'
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