i nine 000 City. , $9 hulls, creek, boge, land’ oads ata >thod. 3 always itslegiti- ific prin ecessary capacity. wr adjust only safe ully use;. arty con all side table an‘ e positiox 18 for fur IRS, ET. aE, Pens. ILL ENTS ANTED KET. 0, NG, \GENTS. 8, ILL. HAN S$, ILL. to Brandler. The Somerset County a VOLUME IIL SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1893. NUMBER 7. Established 1852. P. 8 HAY, —DEALER IN— GENERAL MERCHANDISE. The pioneer and leading deneral store in Salis- bury for nearly a half century. For this Columbian year, 1893, special efforts will be made for a largely increased trade. Unremitting and active in an- ticipating the wants of the people, my stock will be replen- ished from time to time and found complete, and sold at pri- ces as low as possible, consistent with a reasonable business profit. Salisbury. Pa., Jan. 2d, 1893. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting your very valued patronage, I remain yours truly, P. S. HAY, Hardware! Hardware! Do you know that BEACHY BROS, keep the fullest line of Cook and Heating Stoves on the market—also Guns and Ammunition, Harness, Paints and Oils, Lap Robes, Horse Blankets? ROGERN BEST SILVERWARE! Call on us for your Christmas and Wedditg Presents in this line. We also have Buggies, Wagons, Spring Wagons and Road Wagons, which we will sell at this season at bottom prices. I=" And don't you forget it we will have Sleighs on hand as soon as the fleecy flakes appear. Headlight Oil only 15 cents per gallon. Mrs. S. A. Lickliter, —Dealer In All Kinds Of — GRAIN, FLOUR And FEED. CORN, OATS, MIDDLINGS, “RED DOG FLOUR,” FLAXSEED MEAL, in short all kinds of ground feed for stock. “CLIMAX FOOD,” a good medicine for stock. All Grades of F'iour, among them “Pillsbury’ s Best," the best flour in the world, ‘“Vienna,” “Irish Patent,” “Sea Foam" and Royal. GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal, Oat Meal and Lima Beans. I also handle All Grades of Sugar, including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. load lots, and will be sold at lowest prices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. These goods are principally bought in car Store in STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA. Bargains, Bargains! Cheap Holiday Goods Left Over. See them and you will want them and you will buy them. Ladies’ and Misses’ Fur Muffs I am selling very cheap; also Misses’ and Children’s Alaskas, Men's Winter Caps, Lumbermen's Outfits, lilegant Dress Goods, Fine Flannels and Woollens. Cold-weather dry goods NEVER BEFORE SO CHEAP AS NOW. All Domestics at ‘‘low-water-mark” figures. Prices within the reach of all, and now is the time to buy. Come in and learn what pleasure, satisfaction and econ- omy there is in trading with Geo. K. Walker, Salisbury, Pa. City Meat Market, N. Brandler, Proprietor. A choice assortment of fresh meat always on hand. If you want good steak, go If you want a good roast, go to Brandler. Brandler guarantees to please the most fastidious. Honest weight and lowest living prices at Brandler's. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR HIDES. Wahl's Meat Market is headquarters for everything usually kept in a first-class meat market. The Best of Everything to be had in the meat line always on hand, in- cluding FRESH and SALT MEATS, BOLOGNA and Fresh Fish, in Season, Come and try my wares. Come and be con- vinced that I handle none but the best of goods. Give me your patronage, and if I don’t treat you square and right, there will be nothing to compel you to continue buying of me. You will find that I will at all times try to please you. COME ON and be convinced that I can do you good and thatI am not trying to make a fortune in a day. Thanking the public for a liberal patronage, and soliciting a continuance and increase of the same, I am respectfully, Casper Wahl. 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. West Salisbury ROYAL ROLLER MILLS, “headquarters for Faney Flour, Grain, Feed, Ete. Custom exchange and chop- ping done promptly with best satisfaction, Gill's Best Patent Flour a specialty. H. H. Reitz, Elk Lick, Pa. —Shipper of | Pure Pennsylvania Coun- try Apple-buter. Guaranteed to be absolute- ly pure and free from all adult- erations. Made of apples and pure cider only. Try it and you will use no other. S. Lowry & Son, UNDERTRKERS, at SALISBURY, PA., have always on hand all kinds of Burial Cases, Robes, Shrouds and all kinds of goods belonging to the business. Also have : A FINE MEARSE, and all funerals entrusted to us will receive prompt attention (2 WE MAKE EMBALMING A SPECIALTY. CASPER LOECHEL, SALISBURY, PENNA., —DEALER IN— BOOTS ‘and SHOES. Repairing of all kinds done with neatness and dispatch. Give we your patronage, and I will try to please you. R.B. Sheppard, Barber and Hair Dresser. All kinds of work in my line done in an ex- pert manner. My hair tonic is the besi on earth--keeps the scalp clean and healthy. I respectfully solicit your patronage. THE VALLEY HOUSE, H. LOECHEL, Proprietor. Board by the day, week or month. First-class accommodations. Rates reasonable. THE ONLY LicENSED HOTEL IN SALISBURY. We take pleasure in trying to please our pat- rons, and you will always find THE VALLEY a good, orderly house. John J. Livengood, GENERAL BLACKSMITH, SALISBURY, PA. All classes of work turned out in a neat and substantial manner and at reasonable prices. If you are not aware oi this, we can soon convince you if you give us your work. I. A. Reitz, EIKick, Pa. [ing for 1896. J. A. BERKEY, ATTORNEY -AT-LLAN, sosf=" Pa. J. C. LOWRY, ATTORNEY -AT-LLAK, SoMERSET, Pa. BRUCE LICHTY, PEHTSICTAIN and SURGECLT, GRANTSVILLE, Mbp., offers his professional services to the people of Grantsville and vicinity. &¥ Residence at the National house. Dr. D. 0. McKINLEY, tenders his protessionsl services to those requir- ing dental treatment, Office on Union St., west of Brethren Church, A. F. SPEICHER, Physician And Surgeon, tenders his professional services to the citizens of Salisbury and vicinity. Office, corner Grant and Union Sts., Salisbury, Penna. A.M. LICHTY, Physician And Surgeon. Office first door south of the M. Hay corner, SALISBURY, PA. Frank Petry, Carpenter And Builder, Elk Lick, Pa. If you want carpenter work done right, and at prices that are right, give me a call. Will soon be prepared ito do all kinds of furniture repair- ing. Watch for my announcement. WW. F.Garlitz, Expressmanand Drayman, does all kinds of hauling at very low prices. All kinds of freight and express goods delivered to and from the depnt, every day. Satisfaction guaranteed. TOPICS find COMMENT. Ir Congress is trying to do nothing it is making a howling success ‘at it. Taar alleged Hill-Croker falling out was probably for federal patronage only. SENATOR SMITH, of New Jersey, ought to shine at Washington. He's a patent leather man. A ReODE IsLAND man who died the other day left seven widows. No dis- count on his nerve. THE mother-in-law joke should take a back seat, now ‘that an Ohio man has eloped with his, and $800. v Dogs the falling off in the number of gentlemen ‘‘mentioned for the Cabinet” mean that the raw material is exhausted? AN esteemed exchange prints a half- colnmn editorial, asking, “What is heart failure, anyway?” Tt is death, my boy. ‘‘SoME good western man”, who was so badly knocked out by the National con- ventions of last vear, is already in train- THERE are too many lobbyists in Wash- ington this winter for the good of the country, to say nothing of the ‘good names of some Congressmen. THE San Antonio grand jury was evi- dently composed of newspaper readers; it decided that the alleged Mexican revo- lution was greatly exaggerated. It is said that you can tell more about a man’s character by buying a second- hand bicycle from him, than you can by hearing him talk a year in prayer meei- ing. THE time may come when no young man who has not taken part in a prize fight, as principal or second, can hope to gain a footing in New York or Chicago society. ; “UNCLE JERRY’ will have one satis- faction. The next Secretary of Agricul- ture will ‘have to hump himself to pro- duce a more wintry article than the coun- try has had this season. Way our churches spend millions of dollars every year trying to civilize and Christianize heathen savages and neglect the varions State legislatures is a ques- tion worth considering. It is said that a German has succeeded in making good brandy out of sawdust. When a man can take a rip saw and get drunk on a rail fence, prohibition will have no terrors for him. THE manager of a Naples bank was ar- rested the other day for taking 2,000,000 lires. He might have taken double that number of liars from the United States and been in no danger of arrest. PENNSYLVANIA'S display of piscatorial » beauties at the World's Fair promises to be the finest of any state in the Union. There are no grounds for the inference that her quota of suckers in attendance will surpass the others, however.—Ex. THE nineteenth century ship builders did not make as good a job in duplicating the caravels of Columbus as did the build- ers of these hardy little vessels, as itis announced that the Nina's foremast must be taken out and put into a new position before she will sail. THERE is food for serious thought in the fact that the poverty of a Senator or Representative in Congress is constantly brought forward as a proof of his honesty. While this does not necessarily imply that the rich ones are dishonest, it comes near enough to if to make a guilty man mad. ACCORDING to a late supreme court de- cision the leasing of the coal right to land entitles the lessee to the coal only, and not to the oil, fireclay or other wealth that may be under the surface. This de- cision is one of interest to our people who -are leasing their coal rights just now.—, Berlin Record. ONE of the largest whales ever taken off the American coast is to be exhibited at the World's Fair. It weighs seventy- five tons and is sixty-five feet long. Its tongue weighed 8,500 pounds and made 120 gallons of oil. Its mouth has been fitted up as a reception room and will seat twenty-five people.—Ex. THE proposal to have a Congressional committee investigage the ‘social evil” in our large cities seems unnecessary to many people. A very large committee could easily be selected from Congress, each member of which would be prepared to make an extensive report on the sub- ject without any new investigation. Tom WHITAKER, editor of the Gatling Gun, a sensational paper published in Al- legheny, edits his paper from behind the walls of the Western penitentiary. Al- though Tom is in prison nearly all the time, on account of things published in his paper, he is not discouraged. This is what he says: ‘‘I married one of the best. girls in the world. She is a wife that weighs but 90 pounds, but she is worth her weight in gold.: She has stuck to me during 28 years of prison life, and she will stick to me until I die; and so long as she sticks to me, I don’t care a continental for the world and its opinion.” JupGr PAXTON, of the Supreme Court of this state, has just rendered a decision which confirms the force of the old ‘Blue law’ statute of 1794; and, under it, makes the selling of newspapers, on Sunday, a misdemeanor. It is an outrage on mod- ern civilization that the people of this country have to be hampered by laws passed by our great-great-grandfathers, who kuew about as much of the wants of this generation, as we do of those to come a hundred years after us. The Pennsyl- vania legislature, at this winter's session, ought to expunge every law of this sort on the statute books. Not that Sunday should not he observed in all decency and decorum, but that a man should be deprived of reading a newspaper on Sun- day, becanse the selling of it is not a work of ‘‘necessity or charity,” is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. — Somerset Vedette. Tae following is the way Editor W. 8. Knox, of the Malvern (O.) Doings, bid adieu to a constituency. which has failed to support his paper: ‘In bidding adieu to Malvern as the scene of our struggles in the field of jour- nalism, our readers will pardon a brief outline of the causes which have com- pelled our departure. On ours, lack of judgment, and failure to comprehend the essential littleness of the place—our ex- pectations that we could dispel the hoary prejudice and bust the rust-eaten shackles of rural conventionalities, has recoiled with stupendous force upon our pocket- book. We have cried ‘bread, bread,’ when there was no bread. We have wasted our energies and dulled the edge of our wit in trying to make blood gush from a turnip. We have laughed where there is no mirth. We have wept where tears are unknown. We have danced and the daughters of music are dumb. We have stung you into madness. We have tickled you under the chin. We have nursed and coddled the lean and meager truth. We have created and dis- bursed the large and lusty lie. The fruits of our efforts have been apples of Sodom and our belly is filled with wind. Were poverty a gin, this were a hamlet in hell; were selfishness a virtue, this were a pal- ace in Paradise. To our friends---to those who snccored us in the hour of our dis- tress—our memory will ever be green. and may the gods of time and fortune be ever kind to them. To our enemies—to those who withheld their supporting arm and word of cheer—may they reap as they sowed. Farewell.” Maxy of the railroads of the country have decided not to issue the customary half-fare permits to clergymen. Why should they? about the best paid class for the service rendered. Of course there are excep- tions, but they are few and far between. —Somerset Herald. Yes, why should they have half-fare permits? That is something that we have long wondered at. A clergyman who has any dignity about him or respect for his calling” will not care whetlier he has to pay full fare or not. It is the plug preacher who will raise a howl about paving full fare—the insignificant. small- souled preacher who imagines that he ought to have everything he wants for nothing or about half-price. and all for no other reason than because he is a preacher. The opinion used to prevail, more or less, among ignorant people. that preachers were better than other people. consequently entitled to more favors. This idea, however, has about gone glim- mering down the ages; for people have learned that. clergymen carry about as much humanity and its sins with them as other people do. In short, they are no better than other people. The man who tills the soil and the man who wields the pick and shovel in the bowels of the earth, have occnpations just as honor- able as that of the man hind the sacred desk, encased in broad- cloth, and expounds the Gospel. The idea that preachers, who are generally well paid, (in many cases too well paid for the services rendered) should ride about on railway trains at half-fare, while poor miners and other laborers pay full fare, and while editors are paying abont three fares in advertising. is an outrage and a disgrace. It is truly abont time for the railroad companies to get their eyes open and do justice, regardless of rags, tagt or broadcloth. who stands be- Southampton, Grand sledding at present. and all the young folks are enjoying themselves hugely. Rev. Knepper occupied the pulpit at Gladdens Run church, last Sunday, sat 10:30 a. m. Rev. Garland will hegin his revival meetings at Kennell’s Mills union church, on the evening of Feb. 15th. Mr. Israel Emerick died last Friday night at 11 o’clock, of heart disease. He will be buried today at 12 o'clock. Fu: neral sermon will be preached at Comp's church, by Rev, Knepper, of Wellers- burg. There is quite a revival meeting going on at Glencoe, conducted by Rev. Anker. This meeting is now in progress for over two weeks. Thus far aboal ten conver- sions have heen made and {here are yet quite a number of seekers. We hope much good may come out of these meet- ings. The Daniel Boyer farm was sold on the 14th inst. for $1. 100. John Martz, auc- tioneer. The Jesse Beal farm was sold on the 16th inst. for $2,400. Dennis Cook. aue- tioneer. Priva Donna. Jan. 23d, 1893. How to Get “The Star” Without Money. We will send Tre Star free of charge, for one year, to all who secure us three new subscribers. at $1.50 each per year, cash in advance, —————————————— Once upon a time a certain man got mad at the editor and stopped his paper. The next week he sold his corn at 26 cents below market price. Then his property for taxes because he didn't read the Sheriff's sale. He was arrested and fined $8 for hunting on Sanday, and he paid $300 for a lot of forged notes that had been advertised for two weeks, and the public cautioned not to negotiate for them. He then paid a big Irishman with a foot on him like a forge hammer, to kick him all the way down to the news- paper office, where he paid four years subscription in advance, and made the editor sign an agreement to knock him down and rob him if he ever ordered his paper stopped again. Such is life with- out a newspaper.—Ex. During the greater portion of last year Somerset county was represented at the Western penitentiary by 31 prisoners. Three of this number have recently been discharged. The Pennsylvania aunthori- ties have rendered a bill to the County Commissioners for the maintenance of the inmates of that institution from this county. A separate account is kept with each prisoner. The entire number were allowed $1460.41 for labor performed: leaving a balance of $2543.94 for main- tenance to be paid. —Somerset Herald: 1893 has a preity good foothold. but still you will continue to receive letters with a disfigured 3 at the end of the date. The *8” will look like it had been struck by lightning for some time to come yet. —OQOakland Republican. The project for ihe manufacture of Street car bodies is, we are told, assum- ing very satisfactory shape. Our inform- ant feels confident that the works will be started next summer and that frow the start not less than one hundred and fifty mechanics will be employed. —Meyers- dale Commercial Clergymen as a rule are