ELL YUU ND, AND \LE, PA. , SEs patrons s strict- our pat- 1 profit and self cordial sk your ete. We give that will sur- ting, Roofing us, and solie- buyers in our enna. pods, inthe Dress Goods, S apest. Give joes in town. ents’ Gloves, Shirts, Dress of School st patronage, y, Pa. t the genuine rated cal e, of over 24 00 ry York City, ter.” I ‘accommodations. Rates reasonable, ; : suaranieed. We take pleasure in trying to plense, our pat- | BTL, Sets rents ro gton, New Rey. ; 4 NUMBER 48. ‘And yet we are not content, le ou 3 growing year by year, we are today woking as. diligently to enlarge our business. and serve you better in years to come than our efforts were in the past. “Onward!” Is The Diligence, Perseverance, Generous Dealing, ond Low Prices, a matured experience and unflagging enterprise a are 0 kefs to success. a We thank you for your patronage, which has made this stcre what it is today. A continuance, we hope, will be as fruitful in the future .development and enlargement as it has * been in the past, and your happiness will be increased. pro-| portionately. We keep in stock a full line of Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Men's and Boys’ Clothing, Hats and Caps, Hard- ware, Queensware, Groceries, Confectionery, School Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, Coal Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Cor- liss Engine Oil, Neatsfoot Oil, Varnishes, Dyes, Paints mixed, Paints in oil, Putty, Window Glass, all kinds of Miners’ Tools, Ropes of all sizes Wood and Willow-ware, Tr unks and Valises. ~ Mining Powder and Royal Flour, Minnehaha Flour, etc. en in exchange at market prices. P. SHAY, SALISBURY. PENNA. V atehword os Lubricating Oil, Turpentine, Salt by the Carload! Country Produce tak-, Do youn mow that BEACHY BROS, keep the fullest line of Cook and Heating Stoves on ‘thé ‘miurket—also Guns and Ammunition, Harness, Puints and Oils, lap Robes, Howse Blankets? BEST SILVERWARE! Call on us for your Chri istmas and Wedding Presents in this line. ROGERS £5 Buggies, Wagons, andl Road Wagons; which we will sell at this season at bottom prices. = And don’t you forget it we will have Sleighs on hand | as soon as the fleecy flakes appear, Headlight onl only {5 cents por gation. We also have Spring Wagons Bargains! H. C. SHAW'S, WEST SALISBURY. * Lowk at the following quotations and faovern yourself accordingly: Minehaha Flour, per barrel... ........i... Pillsbury’s Best, per barrel...... .... Vienna Flour, per Darel a Reitz's Best, per barrel, . Becker Flour, per barrel ee a Stanton’s Buckwheat Flour, per Biv 2% ‘ots, Shelled Corn, per bushel White Oats, per bushel ..... ei Salt, per sack a Mining Powder... . . coc vioiiiing 1 40 Patent Meal and all nds of ¥ Mill Feed at Bottom Prion Giveme a call ‘and 1 will sive you HL. CO. SEIAW. seaee slenivany money. ; Physician And Surgeon. J.C. LOWRY, ATTORNEY AT TASK, Somerset, PA, J. A. BERKEY, ARTDORIN ER -AMD-T.A TK, SOMERSET, Pa. A. M LICHTY, + Office tirst door south: of the M. Hay corner, SALISBURY, PA, A. . SPEICHER, Physician And Surgeon, tenders his professional services to the. eitizens of Salisbury and vicinity. Office, corner Grant and Union Sts, Salisbury, Penna. WF. Cavite, Expressman and Drayman, does all Khids of hanling at very low prices. ‘All kinds of freight and express goods delivered to and from the depot, every da%, Satisfaction BRUCE LICHTY,. Physician and Surgeon, GRANTSVILLE, MD. Successor to Dr. 0. G. Getty. 5 THE ALLEY HOUSE, Board he ihe day, week or onl First-class THE OnLy LiorNaED Homes In SALISBURY: rons, and you will always find Tar VALLEY a good, orderly house, ar Propo, . MEKINLEY, tenders his professional services to those requir- ; ing dental ‘treatment. sh Ofc on Union se, west of Brettren ti i | explode bombs in the air and get it. | and derbies of tlie vintage of '90 and "91 style, | excuse for not reinstating truth as the WHEELER And WILSON] NEW HIGH ARM Duplex Sewing Machine. Sews either Chain or Lock stitch. The lightest running, most durable and most popu- lar machine in the world. Send For Catalogue. Best Goods. Best Terms. Agents Wanted. Wheeler & Wilson mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pa. EDITORIAL REMARKS, THE cholera didn’t reach us, but the crop of new cures has been enormous; and is still increasing. Tres old way used to be to pray for rain. The new way is for scientists {0 always know what they want. they always want-the same thing—votes. dr. was a man, of conrse, whe said: { that the new return postal cards wonld {add to the work of the female postal em- Ployes.. : WE are a nation of Newsraper readers; by blowing ontthe gas, Yopularly visits the big cities. Tri is said that blondes get seasick Kk duiek: er than brunettes. Perhape this phenom. enon may be accounted for hy the fact that the former are naturally light, headed. Tue defeated. _oandidate ean’ always console himself by thinking that it is bet- ter to be right than to be elected: bit he cannot prevent others from regarding him us “left.” B'R'ER HARRISON is a prudent man and he never takes any chances when he can help himself. He issued his Thanksgiv- ing Day proclamation several days be: [fore election. AFTER everything else ‘has been sug: gested as the cause of the result, that is cheering or deptessing according to your point of view. it may occur to some of the explainers that it was votes. § WaEN the number of those who “knew all the tine just how it would be” is con- sidered, it seems strange that overcoats are still worn in such large numbers. ati Sa A New ENGLAND mun makes a living by swallowing three live frogs daily. He charges $1 a swallow, and feels no incon: venience from this unique sort of daily food. Bat if is vather hard on the fr OES. ACCORDING to the newspapers the wa- ter subply of nearly every large city is unclean and undrinkable, but they all have the profound satisfaction of know: ing that the beer made from it is all right. BeN Brrrer has begun his seventy. fifth annual run against Tather time. Ben does not use pneumatic tires, nor run on a kite-shaped track, but it is hoped that he will © ‘gst there” in his usual good New York Crvy is safer to visit since the policemen on night duty have been given whistles in place of clubs, These whistles do not make very sweet music: neither do they raise big lumps all over a fellow’s head. Now, brethren of the quill, there is no keystone of the editorial arch, It may be d:ficnlt for some of you; after the last three months, but it ought to be done. Tap STAR, however, Lins always Buck to OLITICAL prophets ig a “| million doliars. A Saar editor says political parties | You bet; | still the man who makes his earthly exit] blunders in predicting the result of the election now come up smiling to tell the names of the members of the next cabi- net. NS i Pan Ansoon, the Chicago pork king, does an annual business of sixty-three He seems to have made a purse of gold out of a sow’s ear, wheth: er it is a silken one or not. Still he is not satisfied. Yel. with all this wealth he is, personally, as plain as an old shoe. Borraro Biry's Indians arrived in New York in good time to join the tribe of Tammany in whooping up things: hut as they had no votes, it is doubtful wheth- er the Tammany braves shared their can- teens of firewater with them; ‘‘no vote, no good” is one’ of the sayings of Tam- many. GOVERNOR BUOHAKAN, of Tennessee. is. said to be an unusually affable and agreeable: man. He owns a fine farm near Murfreesboro, where he has his own race tracks and gives much attention fo the rein and saddle. The Governor is an easy-going statesman. He ix fond of a cigar, enjoys a good joke, and knows rye from corn. He is a great favorite with the Tennessee farmers. Erraer Americans ure uot: open to the charge of clannishness, or the New York Herald circulates widely among Russians. The Herald arranged u prize competilion between the Russian cartoonist, De Grimm, and Tom Nust, who these manny yenrs has heen known as “King of Cur- toonists,” its readers being the judges, and the Russian got 868 more votes than Nasi, and the prize, $2.000. 2 SAME OLD "COON, Bug Not Right End up. Harrison Elected-- to go up Salt River.——He Would Have Been Elected, but Cleveland Was in the Way. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: We can’t have Ben, . : ; Wide Open Are Democratic Mouths, but it is Their Turn, and They Smile Out Loud. “| sentatives, and Probibitionists even one that had to be thrown out. doubt whether any section of the county can show a better record than this. consule themselves with you can tell every Democrat you meet by the broad smile on his face. a right to smile, yea, even to yell until they are honrse, crow, and Tar 8TAR concedes their right to. whoop things up. same if we would have been ® TABLE OF ELECTORAL VOTES. Harrison. Clevelund. OWR..... io, 131 Arkansas; ...... ....... 8 Kansas: ............. 10 | California ...... Maine. .......... ... 6 | Connecticut. , Massachusetts. ...... 15.| Delaware, ... . Michigan...... ian Florida. .... ‘Minnesota Georgia ...... New Hampshire..... 4 | Hlinods ......... ...... North Dokota........8 | Indiana .... .... ..... Oregon. .............. 4 | Kentucky Pennsylvania... 83 | Louisiana 8 Rhode Islaud..... ... 4 Maryland... . .... ....8 South Dakota .... ..4 | Michigan ......... ...8 Vermont ..... . ..... 4 | Missourl .......... ..17 Washington .......... 4 | Missisgippi.............. 9 Newdersev, |... 10 New York ...... ..... 36 North Carolina. ....... 11 ORI0... noc i 23 South Carolina......... 9 Tennessee... Texas ....... Virginia. ... Wisconsin West Virginia...i...... 8 ET) Es WEAVER. Colorado. .... ..«........... 0... nla Nevada... . Wah et dae ldahe....... 00 0 as fraser Alabama Montana Indications point to the halance of power in the United States Senafe being in the hands of Populists or Farmers’ Al- liance. gained control of the Legisiature on joint ballot in four states, which are now rep- resented bv Republicans in the Upper House, and the Populists claim to be able ‘to elect three new Senators. This will change the standing of the different par- ties in the Senate from 47 Republicans, 89 Democrats and 2 Farmers’ Allinnce to 43 Democrats, 40 Republicans and 5 Farm- ers’ Alliance. . The Democrats will continue to have a hig majority in Congress. which will ‘he compased of: 123 Republicans, 224 Democrats and 7 Farmers’ Alliance repire- Y not counting Rhode Island, from which state no congressnien were elected this fall. While the Deniocrats have swept the country with their Prési- dentinl ticket, it is nevertheless true that the Bepublicans have made Congression- al gains in the majority of the states, hav: ing gained 40 congressmen, while the | Democrats have gained but 10. This would make it appear that the McKinley bill had nothing to do with the great Re- publican defeat on Presidential and the state tickets. The returns of our own state, when all in; will doubtless show a majority for Harrison of about 60,000 or more. 2 Olid Somerset county did its whole duty and rolled np a Republican majority of 4.400. J. D. Hicks is ‘our next Congress- man and gets there by abot 5,000 ma- jority. Tt wilPtherefore hie seen that we have a little something to erow over, and we guess we have a right to pat our office ‘eaon in the paper, np-side down at least. Balisbury's vote for Presidential elec: tors stands ar follows: Republican, 89: Democratic, 49; Prohibition: 19: People’s party. 1. Not a full vote was polled. and most of the stay-at-homes were Republi- cans, The Democratic votes in Elk Lick township were ahout all polled, while no less than about 12 Republican voters re- mained at home. © However, the Repub- lieans earried the towuship by a majority of 16 over the Democratic ticket. Ont of the 825 votes in Elk Lick township, the Republican Presidentinl electors received 162, the Democrats 146. People’s party 16 one. J. D. Hicks ran one vote ahead of his ticket in this township, having received 163 votes. while the Republican Electoral ticket re- ceived 162. Our people voted very intelligently nn- der the new system. as but one vote had to be thrown out in Elk Lick township, while in Salisbury borough there was not We Summing everything up, it will be seen that the Republicans have very little to this year, and They have for it is their time to We would do the victorious, +L considered fair in The Democrats appear to have | rar STAR Feels Blae, But What are We Going to do About it? Weare Whipped, Fair and Square, bat They Can’t doit Again; at Lenst not for Four ‘Cleveland's election is nssured, although at the hour of going to press the returns: But we have enough of the returns to know that Harrison is the ovst: besten man that has entered the are not all in. ‘Jabout the Republican party, and if the Upon the whole, it was a good-natured campaign and there are remarkably few in any of the parties who lost their sell: control during the campaign and since the election. THE STAR rubbed the Dem: oerats pretty hard on the eve of the elec- tion; but nothing in comparison to the way the Democrats have been giving it to the editor since the returns have pro- claimed them the victors. But we can stand itif they can, and we will take our medicine without a murmur. The man who harbors ill will toward his fellow man, on account of politics. is always a shallow-brained ignoramus and a fit can- didate for a lunatic asylum, | We' can stand anything the Democrats can say residential race for yeurs, st | press the tables stand about as follows: : party can not. stand what it’s opposers say, it ought to perish from ihe face of the earth. Its party msn, no matter to what party he belongs, that “gets his back up” when his party is as- sailed by a member of sone other party. We all have a right to fight hard for the party of our choice. and evervihing is war; but when the smoke of battle has cleared away, we should all remember that the officers elected are for the whole people and that all persons have the same laws to be gov: erned by, regardless of what ticket they voted. Cleveland wil! ve our next Presi- dent, not only for the Demoerats, but for Republicans and all others as well. We will all continne to have the same rights and privileges. If the administration proves to be good. it will be good for us all; if bad, it wild be bad for us all, Therefore, let us all dwell together in harmony and await results. and let us all hope for a continuance of prosperous times. We should at all times. as good American citizens, hope for the best, re- gardless of which party is in power. a poor ALL ABOARD FOR SALT RIVER. The Republican ship from this place, which will join the Salt River squadron, will set sail next Monday morning, man ned as follows: Captain, M; Welfley ; M. F. Smith; Fourth Mate, Lou Brown; Pilot.’ Lije Livengood: Boatswain, Sam Lowry. Prof. Dickey and the editor of Tak Svan will act as transportation agents, and all Republicans who haves not yet engaged passage will apply to Ben at onee for tranaportation. John J. Livengood will Join the cored. with his eoon dog, and see that we are Kept in meat, while'R. B. Sheppard lins consented to pick wild grapes, herries, ete, which grow in abundance up the stream at all seasons of the year. and manufacture the necessary liquid refresh- ments. There is also an abundance of birch bark, up there. which will answer for tobacco, and we will live fully as well 4s people did during “the good old Democratic times” of 40 years ago. So do not be disconraged, for if the Demo- crats again give the country. “red "dog money,” times will be better up the creek than down. It will be better (o live on ‘coon, up the creek. than on crow, down here. spe eiitl How Dressmakers Use Beer. ~ “Beer is absolutely indispensable to our business now-a-days,” said a fashion- able dressmaker the other day as she no- ticed my pglunce of inquiry at ‘a basket: ful of empty bottles that a servant was taking ont. ' “Oh, dear, no, I never drink it, nor the girls either, with my permis: every dav, nevertheless.” to wash silk in. and a new look, How? “Why, It gives old dilk a luster almost like gonds fresh from the loom. Then, tho, it gives it a little ‘body’ which lasts for awhile, long enough for our purose, anyway. At lonst half my trade is in making over dresses, and so much better does the silk look af. ter going through the beering that my business is increasing wonderfully. It was a discovery of mv own and it has beer worth a good many thousand dol: lars to me already.”—N. Y. Herald. Girls, did you ever think of it that hoys hinve moresself respect than those of your sex? There is not a young man of any degree of respectability that wonld he seen walkitz up and down the streets of your town in company with a drunken girl. You might search the streets with a fine toothed comb and not fipd a young man who would lock arms and go prom- enading with a young Indy who was puff: ing away at a cigar or who was squirting tobacco juice around on the sidewalk. Girls have no hesitatey in accepting the company of the two latter characters nd two many of them are only too anxious to accept the company or heart and haud of anything that wems pants. Soci ety will become refined when girls will de: mand of boys who wish 10 pay them at: tention, the same purity of character that boys today demand from girls, Over tlie heads of (the young ladies of the land lang: the pussibilities of the. greatest sion, but we use a good many hottlesful, : First Mate, Adam Fogle; Second Mate, Third Mate, Oliver Bover: