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~ 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? :
ROGERS" BEST SILVERWARE!
Call on us for your Chrjstmas and Wedding Presents in this line. “We also have
Buggies, Wagons, Spring Wagons
\ : 3 on
and Road Wagons, which we will sell at this season at bottom prices.
Somerset
VOLUME 11.
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P. S.
—DEALER IN—., |
GENERAL .. MERCHANDISE.
The pioneer and leading general store in Salis-
bury for nearly a half century.
For this Columbian year, 1893, special efforts will be made
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. “Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting your very
valued pa#ronage, I remain yours truly,
for a largely increased trade.
*
°v Salisbury, Pa., Jan. 2d, 18983.
HAY,
P. S. HAY,
J. A. BERKEY,
ATDPORINE XY -AT-T.ANY,
SOMERSET, PA.
BRUCE LICHTY, .
FPITXSICIAIT and SURGECLT,
GRANTSVILLE, Mp.,
offers his professional services to the people of
Grantsville and vicinity.
&¥ Residence at ‘the National house.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1893.
Established 1852.
What the blazes have the leading powers
got to do with it, anyhow?
THIS country manufactured under a
low tarriff in 1860 thirteen per cent. of
the silk consumed by our people; we
manufactured in 1870 under protection
twenty-three per cent., in 1880 the amount
‘was thirty-eight per cent., and in 1890
fifty-five per cent., prices meanwhile not
rising. , Is the.tariff a tax?
A. F. SPEICHER,
of Salisbury and vicinity.
:| Penna.
Physician And Surgeon,
tenders his professional services to the citizens
Office, corner Grant and Union Sts., Salisbury,
JOHNSTOWNERS want the northern por-
tion of this county to form part of a new
county with Johnstown for the County-
seat... We believe that the new arrange-
northern townships. Not that we want
to get rid of them, but because Johns
A, M. LICHTY,
Office first door south of the M. Hay corner,
SALISBURY, PA.
Physician And Surgeon.
place of business, anyway.
Tae Champlain of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives eloquently
prayed the other morning, ‘“That after
the struggles of this life are over the mem-
bers of this legislature may all £0 to the
s
¢~And don't you forget it we will have Sleighs on hand
as soon as the fleecy flakes appear. . hz
LP Repl Headlight Oil only 15 cents per gallon.
Dr. D. O. McKINLEY,
tenders his professional services to those requir
ing dental treatment.
Office ou Union St., west of Brethren Church.
land where there is no winter.” Some of
the ‘members regardea this as an unkind
reflection, but it is a safe bet that some
of them will go there. —Ex.
A’ RESPECTALBE body of Democrats
have already declared that free trade was
not made to stand on.
Frank Petry,
Carpenter And Builder,
Elk Lick, Pa.
prices that are right, give me a call.
ing. Watch for my announcement.
H. LOECHEL, Proprietor.
accommodations. Rates reasonable.
THE ONLY LicknseDp Hotel IN SALISBURY,
good, orderly house.
TOPICS find COMMENT.
Ir is not impossible to find profuseness
Mrs. S. A. Lichliter,
GRAIN, FEOUR 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,
among them ‘“Pillsbury’s Best,” the best flour in.
’
«nd Royal. :
GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal, Oat Meal and Lima Beaus.
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. Store in
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
the world, “Vienna,” “Irish Patent,” ‘‘Sea Foam"
I also handle
These goods are pri ncipally bought in car
Bargains,
Cheap Holiday Goods Left Over.
See them and you will want them and you will buy them. Ladies’ and Misses’ Fur Muffs T am
selling very cheap; also Misses’ and Children’s Alaskas, Men's Winter Caps,
Elegant Dress Goods, Fine Flannels and Woollens. Cold-weather dry goods
EVER BEFORE NO CHEAP AS NOW.
All Domestics at “low-water-mark” figures.
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.
Bargains!
Prices within the reach of all, and
City Meat Market,
N. Brandler, Proprictor.
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. fade
Brandler guarantees to
please the most fastidious.
Honest weight and lowest
living prices a® Brandler's.
HICHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR
HIDES.
1 and
Wall'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
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 OI
and be convinced that I can do you good and
that I 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.
and sincerity in the same individval, but
it is very rare.
IMAGINE the Goddess of Liberty wear-
ing a hoopskirt at the World's Fair. Jt
would be a steel ribbed shame.
MAN-MADE creeds in the churches are
being brushed aside with impunity, these
more numerous everywhere. ;
re Em
NorrinGg shows the thrift of the late
Jay Gould in a stronger light than that
he paid taxes on but $500,000, while he
bequeathed his heirs $70,000,000.
EVERYTHING depends upon the point
of view. Who ever knew a man holding
a public office to agree in his opinion of
office-seeking with that held by the man
who is after that office?
WE are glad to observe that Washing-
ton’s farewell address was read to the
United States Senate on the 22d day of
February. Bnt it is a wonder some sen-
ator did not rise and move an amend-
ment.
Hon. J. STrrRuING MORtON, Mr. Cleve
land's seerétary of agriculture, is a wid-
ower with four sons. but no daughters.
If he can live in Washington the next
four years and come out a ‘widower still,
he is a brave man,
THE New York Sun intimates that Mr.
Cleveland selected Gresham for ‘his Cab-
inet because the Judge believes in third
terms. He favored a third term for Grant
in 1880, and he may favor a third term
for Cleveland in 1896.
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Tak London Daily News thinks that if
the United States would refuse to annex’
Hawaii it would escape a serious dangen
Yes, but it is a good planon general prin-
ciples for the United States to do just
what the English newspapers’ think is
not best for her.
THERE is an organization called the
Reform Press Association. We don't
know what it has started out to reform
in connection with the press. but we rec-
ommend it to reform first lying newspa-
rer correspondents and reporters. Then
the press will do very well. t
A LATE decision of the supreme court
in regard to the exeption from taxation
of real estate owned by charitable socie-
ties is of interest to such associations and | *
doubtless applies as well to churches.
The court holds that real estate not oc-
cupied by the society holding it is not |s
exempt from taxation.
SECRETARY FOSTER savs lie has received
assurances from representatives of the
leading powers of the world warranting
the conviction that the annexation of
Hawaii will be regarded by those powers | c
If you want carpenter work done right, and at
Will soon
be prepared to do all kinds of furniture repair-
THE VALLEY HOUSE,
Board by the day, week or month. First-class
We take pleasure in’ trying to plense our pat-
rons, and yon will always find 'ux VALLEY a
davs. The independent man is growing |
no name, and that we cannot say. ‘The
United States is our country,” without
violating good grammar,
United States should always be used in
country has a name, and a splendid one.
If the caviler will pull a big,
bright silver dollar out of his pocket he
may read around the rim of it the legend,
name and our country.
good grammar but good patriotism to
try.”
Moreover,
grow to be a still greater one.
fair grounds will be fifty cents,
What is there left of the Democratic
platform? Does it mean anything? Does
it constitute a binding obligation of anv
kind on the party which adopted it?
These are questions asked by the Roch-
THE recommendation has been made
that ex-presidents be senators of the
United States at large for life. Why
should they? They already get nearly
as much honor and a good deal more fun
out of being presidents of humane, scien-
tific and social societies. One of our
presidents showed his true greatness by
accepting the office of justice of the peace
among his neighbors after his term in the
White House was ended,
Tuk London Economist reports a dimi-
nution in the amount of British exports
during ‘the year 1892, as compared with
the exports in the years 1890 and 1891.
The amounts for the years mentioned are
as follows: 1892, £238.701,000; 1891.
£249,562,000; 1890, £247.675.000.. During
the last year England lost $32, 000,000 of
her foreign commerce and ihe United
States gained $127.000.000. Did there
free trade expand their commerce or our
protedtion cramp ours?
AN American physician traveling in
Europe concludes that probabilities ave
strong for a general onthreak of cholera
next summer, so says The Tribune.
He finds, too, that facts were concealed
‘last summer, In one town a health of-
ficer told him there were 38 cases. and he
found on the records 784 cases, of which
380 were fatal.
Let Congress give us immigration laws.
There is yet time. Not to do so is guilty
neglect of duty.
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SoME of the too-utterly-good people
will allow city papers to come into their
homes containing reading matter that
would-canse them to boil over with right-
eous indignation, should they find the
same kind of matter in one of their home
papers. This is a queer world, and their
are some very narrow-minded bigots and
persecutors in it. But who cares? God
in his wisdom has undoubtedly intended
such human insects to add variety tothe
world; and variety, vou know, is the
spice of life.
A FORMER president of the Board of
Tax Commissioners of New York City
recommended that all taxation of the per-
sonal property of individuals in that city
be abolished and the levy placed only on
real estate and.corporations. © He thought
it would encourage righ people from all
pver-the Union to go to New York and
live, spending their money there, in-
creasing consumption and making trade
lively. It is said that there is $4,000, -
000.000 worth of personal property in
New York state that annually escapes
the Assessor as it is, and of course there
are proportional amounts in other states.
A CAVILER says that our country has
because the
he plural. He is dead wrong. Our
round,
‘United States of America.” That is our
It is not only
ay that ‘‘this United States is our coun-
The United States is a nation.
it is a great nation and will
Tar admission charge to the world’s
bat of
ourse that will not admit to everything.
with satisfaction or ready acquiescence. ! No: one ought te expect that it would,
ment would be of great benefit to our
town is their market town and chief
| ter? The man who has faith in a friend
The Chicago News Record has been
figuring on the cost of admission to the
sideshows and reaches this conclusion:
“Allowing car fare both ways, 50 cents
admission to the grounds, a moderate
lunch costing 50 cents more, a concert
in the music hall. mineral water, car fare
on the electric railway inside the grounds,
a ride on the electric launches, a glimpse
of the Esquimanx and a catalogue of ex-
hibits, the careful financier might see the
whole show for about $15, if he dispensed
with such luxeries as peanuts, popcorn
and soda water.
A PRELIMINARY test of a device for
consuming the smoke and gases from lo-
comotives was made by the Baltimore
and Ohio. railroad on the line between
Baltimare and Washington, on Tuesday.
The device was invented by John Milton,
of Washington. and so far as the test was
concerned, is a success. The invention
was placed upon one of the locomotives
of the Royal Blue line. The coal nsed
during the test was what is known as
“smoke producing coal.” When the de-
vice was in operation no smoke could be
seen issuing from the smokestack, it he-
ing entirely consnmed. The Master Me-
chanic and the Supervisor of Engineers
of the road were among those who ex-
amined the device, and they expressed
approval of the result of the test. —Ex.
A PROFESSOR of rhetoric in a certain
college used to give always this advice to
his departing senior class: ‘Never write
in an album and never go security for
anybody.” The whole country is |ym-
pathizing with the brilliant but hapless
governor of Ohio for not taking the Iast
part of this wise advice. Every dollar
of Governor McKinley's money would
not now be swept away, and not only
his money, hut his wife’s inheritance
from her father. How could a man who
could frame a tariff bill that passed both
houses of Congress and became law in-
dorse for any man living to the extent of
$100.000 withont inquiring into the mat-
to the point of risking for him afl his
money has just alittle too mueh faith
for this world. : :
WHEREVER it is. possible to do so. pat-
ronize home industry. Don't permit a
spirit of nepotism or high-mindedness to
betray you into betraying your own town.
What helps your home merchants and
home manufactures helps you. Nothing
will bring discredit upon your town and
through it upon you gnicker than to run
off-on the slightest provocation and spend
vour money elsewhere. Nothing will
buiid up a town but to stand together and
build it up by giving your patronage to
home institutions. ‘It is a sorry day for
a‘town when its people get it into their
heads that the town’s merchants and oth-
er industries are only fit for the crums
and leavings of their patronage. By so
doing you disgrace yourselves by degrad-
ing and driving away your town’s enter-
prises.—Berlin Record.
Tuk Somerset Standard is happy; ex-
tremely happy. And why shouldn’t it
be? At the last election the Somerset
ring, which for yearshas been one of the
most rotten, insolent and high-handed
aggregations of political corruptionists
that ever disgraced the state. was whip-
ped almost out of its boots. The bosses
having been completely downed in the
caucus, they then succeeded in getting J.
D. Swank, one of their number. on the
Democratic ticket for town council,
Thev also got up an independent ticket,
with John R. Scott. candidate for school
divector, as the chief figure head. With
this unsavory mixture they then gloated
over the sweet revenge they were going
to have. But alas! revenge for the bosses
never came. They heard from the peo-
ple, and the verdict was against the boss-
es. The Standard has a right to proclaim | 1
from its housetop that it feels good. Over |!
this way we are glad to see the ring get
it from all sides. It should have heen
crushed to atoms long ago. This county
has been disgraced far too long by a cor.
rapt political ring, but thank God the
people are beginning to get their eves
NUMBER 12.
ployer and employed. Such harmony is
all the more strange when it is known
that the laborers are perfectly contented
to work for nothing. Such is the state
of affairs reported as existing on Mr.
Howell's cherry farm in Goshen, N. Y.
The laborers are two large Siamese apes,
and their duty is the picking of cherries.
The farmer is enthusiastic ‘in his praises
of monkey labor and thinks it far superior
to that of homan beings. “They elimb
better and eat less than the boys of the
neighborhood. and on each monkey he
thinks he saves fifty cents a day. They
strive to outdo each other in filling bags
slung around their bodies, and when one
has picked more cherries than his com
panion he taunts him in the most insult
ing words of his language. The sailors’
tradition is that monkeys can speak, but
refuse to do so for fear of being com
pelled to work if they break their silence.
The farmer, however, is a strict support
er of the Garner tlieory of monkey lan
guage, and is sure that he can almost un
derstand the chattering remarks of his
servants,
What is a Baby?
A London paper has awarded a 2-guinea
prize for the best definition of a baby.
The lady who won the prize sent in this
answer: J :
A tiny feather from the wing of love
dropped into the sacred lap of mother
hood.
The following are some of the hest
definitions given: ’
The bachelor’s horror, the mother’s
treasure, and the despotic tyrant of the
most republican household.
The morning caller, noonday erawler,
midnight brawler.
The only precious possession that ex
cites envy.
The latest edition of humanity, of
which every couple think’ they possess
the finest copy.
A native of all countries who spenks
the language of none.
About twenty-two inches coo and wig
gle, writhe and scream, filled with suc
tion and testing apparatus for milk, and
automatic alarm to regulate supply.
‘A quaint little craft called Innocence.
laden with simplicity and love. .
A thing we are expected to kiss and
look as if we enjoyed it.
A little stranger with a free pass to the
heart's best affections.
That which makes home happier. love
stronger, patience greater. hands busier,
nights longer, days shorter, purses Fight-
er, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten,
the future brighter.
Imagination Ceased There.
“I suppose, Doctor,” said Cumso to Dr.
Paresis, “that a large proportion of the
ills of your patients are imaginary?”
‘“Yes sir, quite a large proportion.”
“And your treatment in such cases, |
suppose, is by imaginary piils?’
“Well, 1suppose you might esl} it that”
“Then, of course, for treating imagin-
ary ills with imaginary pills, you send
in imaginarv bills?”
‘Oh, my dear sir, nothing of the kind.
There’s nothing imaginary about the bills.
1 have to draw the line somewhere.”
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Home.
The prince rides up to the palace gates
And his eyes with tears are dim.
For He thinks of the beggar maiden sweet
Who never may wed with him.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many a splendid palace
That's never a home at all.
The veoman comes to his little cot
With a song when day is done,
For his dearie is standing in the door
And his children to meet him run.
For home ig where the heart is, .
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many a stately mansion
That's never a home at all.’
Could I but live with my own sweetheart
n a hut with sanded floor,
’d be richer far than a loveless mau,
With fame and golden store.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or smail,
Aud a cottage lighted by lovelight
1s the dearest home of all.
—George Horton.
opened. Think of it, voters, men like
John R. Scott, who spent much of his
time in past vears denouncing independ-
ent Republicans as soreheads and kickers
in a pail of water.
each hill of cucumbers
Prof. Cook's Saitpetre Remedy.
Dissolve one tablespoonful of saltpetre
A pint poured around
or squashes is
—think of such a man turning ont to be
a sorchead and kicker himself! It re-
minds us of the old addage concerning
the great difference it makes as to whose
ox is gored, The bosses have been Re-
publicans for revenue only, and it is plain
to see that whenever they can’t run things
to suit themselves they are as ready to
kick, yea, even more so than those whom
they have been dubbing ‘‘bolters, sore-
heads and kickers ‘for lo these many
years. Down with-the bosses! not only
in Somerset borough politics, but in Som-
erset county politics. They have out-
lived their usefulness. Their sin has
found them out. They are doomed and
deservedly doomed.
Laborers Whe Do Not Strike.
In these times it is pleasant to hear of
a case of perfect harmony between em
very good for the plants and very bad
for the bugs, both striped and blaek.
which burrow at night in the earth about
the plants. Cut worms are also said to
dissolve like earth treated with saltpetre.
This is a remedy which would certainly
be very useful to the plants, and if. as is
claimed, it destroys or keeps away insect
marauders, it will prove most valuable.
This saltpetre solution is useful to any
plant which is attacked by insects which
which at any time burrow in the ground.
On 20 different occasions The Kicker
has referred to Pine Valley asa suburb
of sheol, and to most of its representative
citizens as k nock-kneed
humpbacked paupers. Indeed. as we
have no subscribers there, we have al
ways felt perfectly justified in speakiny
the truth -
outlaws and
Arizona Kicker.
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