nN some ce, we € are i bluases 5, and ® Lis for ling to proud attend ad and ussing 1-town y way ) whis- ake it f there y sold. | man, mant- other vay to e man poses. er.” d the neces- hisky. ld be who le the p the hatic- itself. nflict - 2% . The Somerset VOLUME II. SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1893. NUMBER 11; Established 1852. “P. S. 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. valued patronage, I remain yours truly, Salisbury. Pa., Jan. 2d, 1893. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting your very P. S. HAY, Hardware! fardware! Do you know, that BICACHY 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? ROGERS BEST SILVERWARE! Call on us for your Christmas and Wedding Presents in this line. We also have Buggies, Wagons, Spring Wagons and Road Wagons, which we will sell at this season at bottom prices. {=F 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. Lichliter, 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 Flour, nimong them *“Pillsbury’s Best,” the best flour in the world, “Vienna,” ‘Irish Patent,” “Sea Foam" und-Royal. GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal. Oat Meal and Lima Beans. T'aiso handle All Grades of Sugar, including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. Goods delivered to my regular customers. load diols, and will be sold at lowest prices. These goods are principally bought in car: Store in STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA. Bargains, Elegant Dress Goods, Fine Flannels and Woollens. 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, Cold-weather dry goods NEVER BERORE S0 CHEAP AS NOW. All Domestics at ‘‘low-water-mark” now is the time to buy. omy there is in trading with figures. Come in and learn what pleasure, satisfaction and econ- Prices within the reach of all, and Geo. K. Walker, Salisbury, Pa. City Meat Market, " NN. Brandler, Proprietor. A choice assortment of fresh meat always on hand. If you want good steak, go to Brandler. 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 Wall's Meat Mire 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 Mpars, BOLOGNA and Fresh Fish, in S540, 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 that IT 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 amrespectfully, Casper Wahl. | five cents a gallon, | citizen begin to economize on it now? 4 to his .own daughter. case of two fools in one family. ; Es ——————————— J. A. BERKEY, ATDTTORIN EX -AT-T.ASK, SoMERSET, Pa. J. C. LOWRY, ATTORNEY -AT-L.A~Y, SOMERSET, Pa. BRUCE LICHTY, FIEETSICIAI and SURGEON, GRANTSVILLE, Mb., offers his professional services to the People oft Grantsville and vicinity. fs Residence at the National hous. A. x. 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. Dr. . D. O. McKINLEY, JDRF TN WHASY , tenders his professional services to those requir- ing dental treatment. Office on Union St., west of Brethren Church. 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 pleuse our pat- rons, and youn will always find Tur VALLEY a good, orderly house. TOPICS fd © COMMENT, THE price of whisky has been raised Will the American TuroUGH the medium of a matrimonial paper, a Pittsburg man hecame engaged This is another THE statement ‘that the U.S. Senate re- gards D. B, H. as a’ giddy young fellow with no experience in bossing things is { probably# a campaign lie, left over from { last year. LE - THE proposition made by the Kansas legislator to sell the offices to the highest bidder at a public auction need shock no- body. It would, only be legalizing what is now secretly and illegally done in near- : ly all the states. Goop roads will increase the value ofa farm, shorten the distance te market; save time, wagons, "harness, horses, en- large the territory which contributes to the home market, quicken social eommu- nication, and add fo the individual and the state.—Stonington (Ct.) Mirror. Tar Democrats of this county seem to be divided into two factions. There is the Somerset Democrat: and its crowd and the Vedette and another crowd. Better quit quarreling, gentlemen, for if ‘the Democratic’ party in this county is all securely united, it isa small affair even then, SENATOR Bacon and Joe Cannon, two rrominent Illinois politicians, recently settled an old grudge by means of a most brutal and bloodly fight. Cannon was completely knocked ont. Verily, there is nothing in a name. for a cannon cer- tainly ought to be superior to bacon in a fight. THE professional road-builder, with the money used by ignorant sapheads and self-made road architects, would in a few years make roads in the United States over which two or three times the pres- ent load could be drawn, and the dumb beast of the Republic would rise up and call us blessed.—Bill Nye. ‘Sweet By and By” was recently the basis of a law suit in Chicago. Thesong was composed by Joseph P. Webster, whose wife now sues for royalty on his compositions, she claiming that he never received the monev due him. The firms of Oljver Ditson & Co., Lyon & Healy and 8. Filmore are the defendants in the suit. TrE accuracy, of machine work has been reached in the United States in- ternal revenue department. The com- mittee appointed to take account of the stamps there reported that over a billion revenue stamps were handled by the clerks in the department during 1892, and not one stamp was miscounted or lost. I HAVE often thought that the people. speaking of them generally, have never yet understood the value of good roads. They are notonly matters of convenience, but they are really matters of great econ- omy in every community.—U. 8. Senator Wm. A. Peffer, Kansas, in Memorial to Congress on Road Exhibit at World's Columbian Exposition. Our farming interests are always the basis of the public. weal. Here the na- tional wealth originates, and as the state owes so.much to the farming community, it is simply.common sense to furnish to the farmers, as far as practicable, excel- lent highways.—Major Gen. O. 0. How- ard, in Memorial to Congress on Road Exhibit at Worlds Columbian Exposi- “tion, IT may be all right to compel oleomar- gerine manufacturers to stamp their prod- uct, but after all. oleomargerine is much more palatable and wholesome thah bad cow butter. Consequently, the people ought to be enabled to buy it as cheap as possible. It will never interfere with the market for good butter, no matter wheth- er there are any restrictions on the imi- tation or not, but it will, and really onght to, interfere with the market for bad bat: ter. Tur importance of good roads has heen brought to my attention most forcibly on many occasions, when my wagon trains have been forced to move at a snail's pace over almost impassable roads, and when every hour’s delay might mean un- told disaster. Tne expenditure of animal force on such occasions was fearfnl.— Brigadier-General D. K. Stanley, U.S. A. in Memorial to Congress on Road Exhibit at World’s Columbian Exposi- tion. A BUSHEL of corn will make four gal- Tons of whisky. Government tax on four gallons of whisky, $3.00. The whisky made ripe and oid by the new Jay Eve See rapid process, sells rapid'y for $4 per | gallon, making $16 for four gallons, Of this $46 the farmer gets 25 cents: the government gets $3.60; the railroad gets $2; the manufacturer gets $4; the vender gels $6.25: the nser gets the devil: while the producer and taxpayer foot the bill. —Milford News. : THERE .is no .inferest in the United States that has suffered so much as that of the roads. The roads of this country have not kept pace with the other im- provements, and anything that will en- courage and stimulate our people to the necessity of not only to better paving in the large cities, but also more substantial country roads, will contribute a great deal to the earning power of our people. { —Hon. James Kerr, Clerk House of Rep- resentatives, in Memorial to Congress on Road Exhibit at World's Columbian Ex- position. Tar Panama scandal disclosures that are now shaking the French republic to its very foundation are only one more proof that no iniquity can be hidden, but all must come to light and face the con- sequences. It was so with the whisky ring and the Tweed ring in thé United States; it is the fale of every frand, great or small. There are living in Paris today in comparative exile persons who fled from New York when the bottom fell out of the Tweed ring. The Panama scandal must have set them to remember- ing. Tue public will soon be favored with the postal serip in lien of the postal note. The system has been so simplified that there is little or no complication and at the same time furnishes a good way to send money. A sheet calling for amounts from 1 cent to $3 has been prepared which, on the payment of 1 cent, the amount to be sent will be torn off about the same as an express order. There will be no writing on it of any sort by the postmaster, the sender endorsing the check or draft. The government guar- antees its safe transportation. It is thought that the new system will be used extensively by the senders of small amounts. Mrs. Leask, the famous Kansas wom- an whose oratory aided the Populist par- ty so materially daring the late campaign, is a practicing attorney in the Kansas courts and the wife of a druggist in Wichita. where they reside. She was fitted for thie profession of teaching and is well versed in Latin, French and Greek, She is also a writer of some ability, but is best known as a political speaker and agitator of woman's suffrage. temper- ance, the brotherhood of man and liber- alism in religion. ‘I'he working people idolize their Queen Mary, as they have named her. One distinction she possesses never enjoyed by women before—that of being the only woman whose name has been mentioned seriously for the senate. Ix Illinois they have repealed the com- pulsory school law. This is the result of the Democratic party in that state truck- ling to foreign sentiment in order to get into power. It is an outrage upon Amer- ican citizenship to repeal such a badly needed law, simply because the ignorant and anarchistic foreign element demand it. Any political party that will truckle to the whims of the ranks of ignorance, for the purpose of getting into power, is a party that any intelligent American citizen should be ashamed to belong to. THE STAR'S doctrine is this: America for Americans and such classes of for- eigners only as desire to become thor- oughly Americanized by adopting our customs and helping to build np and maintain our educational institutions. Tae war closed twenty-eight years ago. For the first time since that date an incoming congress will show a strange lack of men who fought on either side. It is a strange reflection to the old tim- ers in congress and out that young men born since the war closed are now old enough to be national legislators. A very large proportion of the members of tke house of representatives in the Fifty- third congress will be under forty years of age. Some of the new senators will be men who were too young to be sol- diers thirty vears ago. The old leaders of more than a generation have nearly every one dropped out in both houses. Even in the Fifty-second congress there are in the lower house thirty-four mem- bers under forty. The new: men will have it all their own.way from this time on. The old fellows who are yet alive can, when they retire, spend their last years in the dignified .and honorable em- ployment of horticulture, as Hannibal Hamlin and the ancient Roman states- men did. “THE heaviest loads sat lightly upon him.” says General O. O. Howard of Gen- eral Benjamin Butler. The popular es- timate of Butler is that he was a greater lawyer that military man, but General Howard, writing in the New York World, contradicts this judgment, declaring that few men who ever commanded armies have excelled ‘him in administrative conception and, execution. It was his unhappy combative disposition that in- volved him in troubles with prominent individuals constantly during his mili: tary career, and this prevented him from being appreciatea at his full power, Gen- eral Howard says. Perhaps when all else connected with his life fades out the phrase, *‘contraband of war,” will be re- membered as his invention. . In the con- ception which gave rise to this phrase certainly the genius. of the lawyer shines out transcendent. In the first days of the war. ‘Union generals were forbidden to free slaves or to give them refuge as run- aways. General Butler took the slave at the south’s own estimate. He is a chattel, he reasoned, property like any other live stock. The negro is capable of being used by the eneny to aid him in carrying on the war. Therefore he is as much contraband as arms or ammu- nition. Therefore I seize him and keep him by the rules of war. 1861. Thereafter every run-away slave in Butler's camps found refuge. It looks a good deal now as if the Pro- hibitionists and the People’s Party folks would unite upon a common platform. For some time past both parties have agreed in their doctrines on all questions except the liquor question, and tliey are likely to come together on that. The basis of their union upon this point is the nationalization of the liguor traffic. That does not regnire an enormous con- cession either way, and the leading Pro- hibition and People’s Party organs, like the Voice, of New York. and the Advo- cate, of Topeka, Kan., speak very favor- ably toward it. What does nationalization mean? It means that the United States goverment shall take possession of the distilleries and breweries, manufacture so much ma- terial as is needed for mechanical, med- icinal and scientific purposes and sell it through government agents, established in the different towns. Those who bought the article then would get the pure arti- cle, as the government would not adalt- erate its wares. They would get it at cost, as the government would not deal in it for profit. They would get it if they needed it for certain prescribed uses only, as the agents would be under instructions with bond. Saloons would disappear, as there would be no profit in the business for them. Nationalization is not the regular Pro- hibition doctrine of absolute suppression, but it is sufficiently restrictive to meet with the favor of the majority of the Pro- hibitionists and they are likely, asa party, to endorse it. The People’s Party is like- ly also to endorse it as a good way of regulating the traffic. If both sides en- dorse it, there will be a union of forces and a powerful political party in exist- ence.—Ex. Is This True? A good story is told of the neat way in which Mr. Norman Hay, of Elk Lick, foiled several would-be burglars recently. Two strangers appeared at the house of Mr. Hay’s tenant, who liv _: near by, and made some inquiries about the former which aroused the tenant's suspicions that they contemplated robbery. He communicated his suspicions to Mr. Hay, This was in and together they concluded to give the projective visitors a warm reception. Arming themselves, one of them took a post of observation outside, while the other awaited developments within. Af- ter a time the two men appeared and eautiously approaching the house at- tempted to effect an entrance, when the outside guard opened fire. Simultaneons- ly Mr. Hay brought up the reserve ar- tillery ‘with such effect that the visitors cleared the premises at a speed that would have made Nancy Hanks ashamed of her best record. It is safe to say that Mr. Hay will not again be molested by burglars.—Register. Speaking of the wreck at Welch's sid- ing, the Hyndman Bulletin says: ‘‘The frightful mamentum of the run-away train can only be imagined when the. heap of choas was viewed along the frack. En- gine 1365 lay sixty feet over the embank- ment in the creek with its engineer prob- ably under its flattened sides. A box car. in which were the bums and the dog, lay across the creek, while wheat, almost knee deep, was being washed. into the creek by melting ice and rain from the mountain side. Barley malt lay strewn from the track to the creek. loose and in sack. A box carin which was being shipped shelled corn, loose, had taken sail for at least sixty feet, and deposited corn in the foaming waters of Willscreek. A car load of pickled goods from the firm of Heinz & Co, of Pittsburg, lay in the Leap and the tastily filled bottles of pickles, catsup. horseradish, celery sauce. &.. tempted manv a boy to the extent of thieving desires.” The ‘most distressing feature of the great wreck is the singnlar disappear ance of Engineer Wallace. The debris has all been cleared away, but not a trace of the unfortunate man has been found. The theory that his body is in the creek is improbable. as the water is too shallow to hide it long, and the idea generally accepted is that poor Wallace was litera! ly cremated in the wreck of his train. He carried several thousand dollars of insurance outside of the railroad relief association, and his complete disappear- ance makes it difficult to legally estab- lish the fact of his death. and thus settle the claim of his heirs upon the insurance companies.—Meyersdale Register. , An Indiana exchange wants the fol- lowing game, law passed by the coming legislature: Book agents may be killed from Sept. 1st to Oct. 1st: spring poets. March 1st to July 1st; scandal mongers, any time; whale, Aug. 1st to Jan. 1st: mule, Mav 1st to Jan. 1st: while the man who waits until the editor is gone from home and then sneaks in and throws a half a cord of elm snags in thé editorial wood yard for a year's subscription, as well as the antiquarian two penny business man who thinks it does not pay to advertise, may be killed from Jan. ist to Dec. 31st. without recompense or any relief from valuation or aporaisement laws, with in- terest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from date of death, until their re- spective towns shall have _entirely recov- ered from the depression and prostration consequent upon their having been on earth. Selah. A fence advertiser at any time he may be caught. Patent gate men on sight. Gems ¥rom the Moversdaite Commercial. It was a sugar snow. Signs of ¢pring plenty. Bacon is bacon just now. School terms on the home stretch. Did you get a valentine? If not, why not? Washington's birthday, Wednesday, is a legal holiday. An unwelcome and unbidden guest— the Asiatic cholera. ——r—————— If Lou Smith has succeeded in finding Sand Spring and putting more water in- to it, he should now go ahead and build that electric road. The people are be- coming impatient, up this way, and it is also asserted that the Pocahontas people are clamoring for another passenger train to be put on the Pocahontas railway. with “Pit SBchweffelbrenner” as conduct. or. The Greenville school house burners have been frightened away by Man's Baughman’s weather forecasts: conse- quently they will need no attention at present. A citizen of this town informs us that New Centerville borough, in this county. and Chicago were incorporated on the same day. If Centerville doesn’t look well to her laurels, Chicago will make the larger place of the two. Chicago even promises to rival the “metropolis” of Meyersdale. It is said that when Centerville was incorporated it did not have as many votes as there were offices to fill, hence some of the candidates had an extra office trust upon them. That's the kind of a town some of the office. seekers of this town ought to live in. How to Get “The Star” Without Money. We will send THE STAR free of charge. for one year, to all who secure us three new subscribers, at $1.50 each per year, cash in advance, a ERA rN RE aan aisle
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