A tea- poonful ywder ix itpetre, e, Pa. CCess, S sent 7 Me. { | = ININNTD ¥ edad | / THE DEST ) ran TURER on. nice. facturer rofit. ER, ab LOOK HERE! The Somerset ¢ County Star. VOLUME IIL. SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, MARCH 23,1893. NUMBER 15. Histablished 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. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting your very valued patronage, I remain yours truly, -P. S. HAY, Salisbury, Pa., Jan. 2d. 1893. Hardware! Hardware! 4S ie 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 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. £3" And don't you forget it we will have Sleighs on hand das soon as the fleecy flakes appear. "Headlight Oil only 15 cents per gallon. Mrs. S. A. Lichliter, — 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 Flour, 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. 1 also handle All Grades of Sugar, including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. These goods are principally bought in car load lots, and will be sold at lowest vrices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA. Read, Ponder, Reflect and Act, AND Aet Quickly. Come and SEE whether yow can’t buy goods cheaper here than elsewhere in the county. BARGAINS in every department. Do you need a pair of fine shoes? 1 carry in stock the finest in town. Do you need a pair Bro- gans? I have the best and cheapest in town. Does your wife need a fine dress? It can be bought here very low. You use Groceries, do you? Call; I will be pleased to sub- mit my prices. I keep a full line of such goods as belong to a first-class general merchandise store. Clothing, MEN'S CLOT HING/ I desire to close out my stock of Men's clothing. Great bargains are offered in Suits, Overcoats-and Pantaloons. “The early bird catches the worm.” I would announce to my patrons and prospective patrons that I continually keep on hand a full line of the Celebrated ‘Walker Boots and Shoes. I also carry a lice of the Fam- ous Sweet, Orr & Co. Goods, Pants, Overalls, Blouses, Shirts, etc. ylThanking you for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same, I remain very respectfully J. L. BARCHUS, Salisbury, Fa. J. A. BERKEY, ATTORNEY -AT-TLA, SOMERSET, PA. J. C. LOWRY, ATTORNEY -AT-TLAY, . SOMERSET, Pa. A. L. G. HAY, ATTORNET-AT-TLAW — —and NOTARY PUBLIC, Somerset, Pa. W. H. KOONTZ, ATTORN ET -AT-TLANK, Somerset, Pa. R. M. BEACHY, VETERINARY SURGEON, P. 0. address Elk Lick, P a. Treats all curable diseases of horses. Office, 8 miles southwest of Salisbury, Pa. BRUCE LICHTY, PIEXSICIAIN and STURGEOXIT, GRANTSVILLE, MD., offers his professional services to the people of Grantsvilie and vicinity. §¥ Residence at the National house. 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. LICEHTY, Physician And Surgeon. Office first door south ¥of the M. Hay corner, SALISBURY, PA. > Dr. D. O. McKINLEY, EF IE SLT —~+ JD HSH, tenders his professional services to those requir- ing dental treatment. Office on Union St., west of Brethren Church. Frank Petry, Carpenter And Builder, Elk Lick, Pa. If yon want carpenter work done right, and at prices that are right, give me a call. I also do all kinds of furniture repairing, Bring your work to my shop. 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 zlways find THE VALLEY a good, orderly house. It Has Cured Others! WHY NOT YOU ? The Dr. G. F. Webb Elec- tro-Medical Appliances are the best now made for the cure of DEAFNESS, Catarrh, Rheumatism, Paraly- sis, Loco-Motor, Ataxia, Lost Debility, Seminal Weakness; etc. Manhood, General $3” The only appliance that has been Success- ful in the cure of DEAFNESS « The Dr. CG. F. Webb Electrical Ap- pliances cure Sciatica, Prolapsus, Chlorosis, Leucorrhoea, Painful Menses, Sick Headache, Seminal Weakness, Incontinence, Effects of Onanism, Spermatorrhoen, Sterility, Impotency, Paralysis, Diabetis, Nervous Debility, Insomnia, Lumbago, Kidney Complaints, Hernia, Spinal Disease, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Epilepsy, etc., ete. The only Successful treatment known. Thou- & sands of testimonials. Send 10 cents for *“‘Elec- tro-Medical Theory and Practice” which de- scribes treatment. menti®n this paper. B. B. Bliss, lowa Falls, la. 1 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 HEARSE, and all funerals entrusted to us will receive prompt attention $5 WE MAKE EMBALMING A SPECIALTY. The Equitable Society HOLDS A LARGER SURPLUS, writes a LARGER ANNUAL BUSINESS, and has A LARGER AMOUNT OF ASSURANCE IN FORCE than any other company in the, world. Its latest form of Policy becomes INCONTESTABLE and grants absolute freedom as to travel, residence and occupation, AFTER ONE YEAR. It may be surrendered for paid-up assur- ance after three years, and is payable with- out delay in the event of death. F. E. VANDERSLOOT, AGENT, Somerset, Somerset Co., Pa. Wahl's Meat Marke : 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 eonvinced that I ean do you good and {HALT 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. John .J. Livengood, GENERAL BLACKSMITH, SALISBURY, PA. : AN classes of work ‘turned out in a neat and substantial manner and at reasonable prices, If you are not aware of this, we can soon convince you if you give us your work. WW. F'. Garlitz, Expressmanand Drayman, does all kinds of hanling at very low prices. All kinds of freight and express goods delivered to and from the depot, every day. Satisfaction guaranteed, ¥ TO CONSUMPTIVES. The undersigned having been restored. to health by simple means, after suffering for sev- eral vears with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease CONSUMPTION, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To those who desire It, he will cheerfully send (free of charge) a copy of the prescription used, whieh they will find a sure cure for CONSUMPTION, AstEMA, CATARRH, BronNcmitis and all throat and lung MaLapies. He hopes all sufferers will try. his remedy. as it is invaluable. Those desir- ing the preseription, which will cost them noth- ing, and may prove a blessing, will please ad- dress. Rev. EDWARD A. WiLsoN, Brooklyn, New York. TOPICS find COMMENT. Brains are as nnequally distributed as wealth, but no one has yet proposed a re- distribution of brains. RicEARD CRORER must believe that “money talks,” as he refuses to use his tongue for that purpose. Tur editor who asks ‘‘is there a monk- ey language?” has evidently never heard the talk of a fashionable theatre party. A pArTY of New York cabbies gave pugilist Hall a mueh worse ‘‘licking” than he received from Fitzsimmons. But they did not get a $40,000 purse. ApA ReEHAN's bust appears to be fak- ing up entirely too much room in the HeWSpApErs. Will somebody please call her attention to the gold cure? SENATOR JONES savs the outlook for the free coinage of siiver is rose-colored. Either the Senator is color blind, or he forgets the sentiments of President Cleve- land on this subject. A TEMPERANCE paper announces that Liberia imports 70.000 gallons of intoxi- cants for each missionary. Well. it takes a good deal of bug juice to satisfy the appetites of some missionaries. PresSIDENT CLEVELAND seems to have an idea that when the office seeks the man it should do so at a very leisurely pace. He is also opposed to having too many offices on the seeking road at one time. the other day, indicates a way in which four-year terms may be shortened and vacancies created. The only diffienlty lies in persnading postmasters to follow the Georgian’s e ample. Tar United States is the largest cotton- raising country in the world, India com- ing next. 3d, 1893, we exported nearly three bil- lions of dollars worth of raw cotton and thirteen million dollars worth of the manufactured article. : IT is a royal custom in Europe that male members of royal families must em- brace and kiss each other when they meet. The custom of the males kissing the females, which is general in this country, is a more pleasing one, although it sometimes results in trouble. James WHITCOMB RILEY was intended by his father for a lawyer, but by a mer- ciful interposition of Providence was saved from such a fate, and grew up to a poet whose mission was to brighten and delight a world instead of trying to skin it.—Somerset Herald. DELAWARE was one at the slave-hold- ing states, though for some reason slavery never thrived on that soil. remained loyal to the government and L furnished to the federal armies more than 12.000 soldiers. a larger number in pro- portion tofthe population than any other state. THERE is such a thing as being too au- thorative in one’s statements. For in- stance, Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital service, says: “We will keep the cholera out.” He means that he will try to keep it out. There is a higher authority than this officer, although he seems to have forgotten it. A Wyoming postmaster has written to Postmaster Van Cott, of New York, what he says is a sure preventive of cholera. It is to burn scraps of leather in the hall of the house, so that the fumes will spread to all the rooms. The writer says that in Vienna, when the cholera raged there, not a shoemaker was attacked. This was becanse they all burned the waste leather in their shops, Tar day prior to the inauguration, Gov. Russell, of Mass., entertained at lunclieon the members of Congress from Massachusetts. Gov. Russell, in the course of the entertainment, proposed a toast to Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, and asked that it be drank standing. He said: “Gov. McKinley—a manly man in mis- fortune. Stronger than polities is friend- ship, and stronger than political princi- ples is human sympathy.” TAERE is a little too much one-man power in the world, even here in free and enlightened America. For example, here is our Judge with the sole power of granting or refusing liquor licenses. This is an outrage upon a Republican form of government. Each community shonld have the power to settle the license question for itself. Neither Judge Long- enecker nor any other Judge should have anything to say in the matter. AN exchange remark that a man can not till a quarter section of land in Ne- braska and support a saloon and a large kfamily at the same time. We have séen it tried and the family always comes out second best in the deal. It even requires temperance and sobriety in a saloon man to succeed in his business. The most successful saloon men are the ones who never drink intoxicants. Have you ever noticed this?—Hebron (Neb.) Journal. IN religious matters, Turkey seems to have caught onto the Reciprocity idea. For years we have been sending mission- aries over the sea to convert the Moham- medans, but now they have sent a mis- sionary over here to convert us to their religion. They will erect a $150,000 mosque. Butas we already have Chinese Joss houses in this country, guess we can also stand a little Mobhammedanism. Af- ter a while it will be ‘‘pay your money and take your choice.” Eric THE RED was a Scandinavian, who emigrated to Iceland about the year 982, after which he discovered Greenland, where he planted a colony. He sent out an exploring party under his son Lief, in the year 1000. who discovered the conti- nent of America and landed on the shores of southern New England. A statue of the last named was erected in Common- wealth avenue. Boston, some 3 or 4 years ago. Yet, in the face of all this, Colum- bus is generally credited with the first discovery of America. A BILL has been introduced in the Senate providing that all canning factor- ies shall stamp upon their cans the date when the contents were put up. This touches the Fremont canning factories, so the Fremont Tribune takes occasion to remark that this is a good idea and onght to be followed up with another compelling farmers to supply their hens with rubber stamps with which to date their eggs: The country suffers from over-vipe eggs than aged canned goods.—Hebroh (Neb.) Journal. more WHiLe writing with all the scientific knowledge of a great astronomer, Camille Flammarion in his marvellous story “Omega, the End of the World.” which begins in the April number of The Cos- During the year ending June ' mopolitan magazine, keeps the reader at The state. the highest point of excitement by his vivid description of the alarm and despair excited by the approach of a comet whose collision with the earth had been declared by astronomers inevitable. The descrip- tion begins at a time when thé business of the world has been suspended, and at a great mass-meeting held in the Institute of France, we hear the discussion of scientists “as to the possibility of a sec- ond deluge, the drying up of all the surface water of the globe, or the to- tal destruction of human life by cold, together with all the possible phases of death paralleled by the history of the moon. For scientific statement and sen- sational effect this characteristic produc- tion of French genius is unique, and the reader who reads this. marvellous story— and if he begins it he will certainly finish it—will have assimilated without effort, a compact store of scientific knowledge. In this way, apart from its absorbing in- terest, this remarkable piece of fiction will have a distinct scientific value. KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES. Facts Worth Considering. We are in receipt of a letter from Dep- uty Supreme Commander Paul G. Nowag, Berlin's hustling merchant, apprising us that he will be in our town next Monday to compiete the organization of a tent of Knights of the Maccabees. We have carefully investigated the his- torv, aims and objects of this order, and we unhesitatingly advise our citizens to join the Maccabees. They are a fraternal beneficiary life insurance association, and not a money- making, proprietary, cold-blooded soul- less corporation. The Maccabees combine life insurance and disability benefits at less than one- third the cost charged by old-line com- panies tor life insurance alone. : The points of excellency which place the Maccabees at the head of all fraternal insurance orders, are, first. total disabili- ty benefits. Second, at the age of 70 years the member becomes a beneficiary and receives ten per cent. of his certificate annually. Third, in the event of death, the amount of certificate is paid in full, as soon as proof of death is received. This deservedly prosperous order now numbers over 105,000 members and is growing at the rate of over 8,000 mem- bers per month. We call our readers’ special attention ro the following, viz: At the age of 30 to 85 years it costs in the K. O.T. M., $1.50 per month for $3,000 insurance. Counting fifteen as- sessments per annum (the hightes®rate ever reached by a fraternal insurance or- der) the cost would be $22.50 per annum on $3.000. The old-line insurance com- panies, at the age of 32 to 33. for $3.000, payable at death only, is $72.15. An an nual investment of $72.15 will pay the K. O. T. M: annual dues, on even a 15- assessment basis, and leave a balance of $49.65, which amount deposited annual- ly and componnded at 6 per cent.. will, in 7 years, yield a sufficient fund of which the interest will pay the annual dues on a $3,000-policy with the Maccabees and leave the fand intact, paying the month: ly assessments with the interest. In Great Britain there are sixty snch fraternal societies, each over 100 years old, furnishing insurance to their mem- bers at an average cost of about $9.00 per. annum on $1.000 insurance, and yet cronk- ers and old-line insurance men are fond of predicting that a great breaking up time will come by and by. Bat every year young men are growing up and stepping into the places of those who have died or dropped out. and this great fraternal host keeps on increasing in num- bers and influence. And it will continue to grow in numbers and influence until the cradle ceases to rock and the world glands still. . And all this is true. absolutely true: even as it is recorded in THE SOMERSET County STAR of the 2nd volume and the 15 number. Origin of a Legal Phrase. The expression ‘hand and seal,” which occurs so frequent in legal documents, is a reminder of the time when few men were able to write even their own names. Scores of old English and French deeds are extant, some of them executed by kings and noblemen, in which the sigua- ture is a hand dipped in ink, the seal he- ing afterward appended. together with the sign of the cross, the name of the man executing the deed being written by another hand. Dipping the entire hand in ink was, however, inconvenient and dirty, and later the thumb was substituted. The seal continued to be used, and al- though now it has become only a formal- ity, legal practice has in many cases pro- nounced its employment indispensable. From the German. Rich Aunt—Why do you bring me this grass, Tommy? Tommy-—Because I want you to bite it. “Why do you want me to bite it!” ‘Because [ heard pa say that when you bite the grass we will get $40,000.” —Tex as Siftings. Eh ek