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‘accommodations. Rates reasonable, ;
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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.
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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
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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
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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: