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SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1893.
NUMBER 33.
Hstablished 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.
BracHHyY BROS,
Dealers In H ARDWARE,
are now before the people with a most complete line of Shelf Hardware, Agricul-
tural Implements of all kinds, the Celebrated Staver & Abbott Farm Wagons, Bug-
vies, Carriages and Phaetons.
We also handle the best of Stoves, Ranges, Cutlery, Silverware, Harness, Saddles,
tlorse Blankets, Lap Spreads, Tinware, Guns, Revolvers, Pumps, Tubing, Churns,
SNOW IS THE TIME TO PAINT
brush up, improve and beautify your buildings. fences and general surroundings,
and the best line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Lime, etc., can always be
found at our store.
Thanking you for a very liberal patronage in the past, and soliciting your future
trade, we are, respectfully,
BEACHY BROS., Salisbury, Pa.
Mrs. S. A. Luchliter,
CRAIN. FLOUR And FEED.
CORN, OATS, MIDDLINGS, “RED DOG FLOUR,” FLAXSEED MEAL, in short all kinds of
«round 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. I also handle
All Grades of Sugar,
including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. These goods are principally bought in car
1oad lots, and will be sold at lowest prices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
J. A. BERKEY,
ATTORNEY -AT-LATX,
SOMERSET, PA.
J. C. LOWRY,
ATTORNEY -AT-LAN,
SOMERSET, PA.
A.L.G. HAY,
ATTORNEY -AT-LAN —
—and WOT.ART PUBLIC,
Somerset, Pa.
Beprorp COUNTY
marble and Granite Works.
Monuments and Tombstones
of all kinds.
Lowest Prices and Best
Work.
3 Write us for ESTIMATES before buying else-
where.
Ceo. W. Grose & Co., Hyndman, Pa.
David Enos, Agt., Elk Lick, Pa.
W. H. KOONTZ,
ATTORNEY -AT-LANKY,
Somerset, Pa.
R. M. BEACHY, ‘
TETERIINNARTY SURGECIV,
P. 0. address Elk Lick, P a.
Treats all curable diseases of horses. Office, 3
miles southwest of Salisbury, Pa.
BRUCE LICHTY,
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PITT SICIAIN and STRGECXT,
GRANTSVILLE, MD.,
offers his professional services to the people of
Grantsville and vicinity.
§-&™ Residence at the National house.
W. POTTER SHAW,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
tenders his professional services to the people of
Salisbury and vicinity.
{2&™ Office, next door to Dr. Lichty’s office, Sal-
isbury, Pa. :
A. F. SPEICHER,
= = .
Physician And Surgeon,
tenders his professional services to the citizens
of Salisbury and vieinity.
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,
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 you 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.
W.F. EAST,
Painter and Grainer
House and sign painting and all other work in
my line done in a substantial and workmanlike
manner. Your patronage solicited and satisfac-
tion guaranteed.
P.O. Address, ELLIE LICK, P.A.
OOK HERE!
: Read, Ponder, Reflect and Act,
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Act Quickly. Come and
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whether you 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-
vans? 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 CLOTHING/
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 line of the Fam-
ous Sweet, Orr & Co. Goods, Pants, Overalls, Blouses,
shirts, etc. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting a
continuance of same, I remain very respectfully
J. L. BARCHUS, Salisbury, Fa.
THE VALLEY HOUSE,
H. LOECHEL, Proprietor.
Board by the day, week or month. First-elass
accommodations. Rates reasonable.
A fine bar room in connection with a choice
assortment of liquors.
We take pleasure in trying to please our pat-
rons, and you will always find THE VALLEY a
good, orderly house.
West Salisbury House,
(SUCCESSOR TO THE WILLIAMS HOUSE)
WEST SALISBURY, PA. (Elk Lick P. 0.)
This hotel is large and commodious and is in
every way well equipped for the accommodation
of the traveling public. It is situated just a few
steps from the depot, which is a great advantage
to guests, Board by the day, week or mouth at
reasonable rates. This is a licensed hotel and
keeps a fine assortment of pure, choice liquors.
1 respectfully solicit your patronage
and will spare no pains to please my
guests. R. L. WALTER,
Proprietor.
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
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A FINE HEARSE,
and all funerals entrusted to us will receive
prompt attention :
5 WE MAKE EMBALMING A SPECIALTY.
Insurance Agency Of
Wm. B. COOK,
Meyersdale, Penna.
Agent for a full line of the best American
and Foreign companies, representing over
Forty-four Million Dollars of assets.
PROMPT ATTENTION given to set-
tlement of claims. W. B. COOK,
M2 SMITH Agent.
General Solicitor and Collector.
WwW. F. Garlitz,
Expressman and Drayman,
does all kinds of hauling 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,
which they will find a sure cure for CONSUMPTION,
AstHMA, CATARRH, BroncHITIS and all throat
and lung MaLApies. He hopes all sufferers will
try his remedy, as it is invaluable. Those desir-
ing the prescription, 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,
Put not your entire confidence in Con-
gress, and your disappointment will be
less.
Tae fact should not be lost sight of
that more swimmers than non-swimmers
are drowned, and it’s about the same in
politics as in the water.
SECRETARY MoRrTON seems to be doing
his level best to exhaust this year's sup-
ply of red-hot weather before Congress
meets, and when a man does his best he
should be given credit for it.
IT seems a little strange that every time
a wealthy man is carried into court
charged with wronging a poor girl, the
cry of ‘“‘blackmail” should be raised, aud
stranger that it should be so generally
accepted.
MANY national banks have failed, but
no man isat all uneasy who has a pocket-
book full of bills issued by the broken
banks. They are Republican bank notes
and are as good as gold at all times.
There is no wildcat in national bank bills.
—Blue Valley Blade.
1892.
Grandfather's big hat.
Wheat $1 per bushel.
Wool 20 cents per pound.
Homestead labor, $6 to $18 per day
and striking for more.
1893.
Grover’s big collar.
Wheat 60 cents per bushel.
Wool 10 cents per pound.
Labor out of a job.
Which did you vote for last fall?
During the protective administration
of President Harrison, the business in
the country so prospered as to warrant
an increase of 26,000 business concerns
newly started up, but, notwithstanding
this unprecedented addition to our mer-
cantile institutions, the failures during
the last year of his administration were
335 less than in the last year of President
C'eveland’s first administration, and the
total amount involved in such failures
was less by $9,786.000. Immediately af-
ter the election of President Cleveland
in 1892 came the speedy contraction of
business and preparation for unknown
impending dangers, and the amounts in-
volved in commercial failures increased
over 200 per cent. in six months, compar-
ing the first half of 1893 with the first
half of 1892.
THERE are some people who imagine
that the only road to an office is abject
obedience to a boss. When you find
such a man you will see that his senti
ments are curbed, his convictions are re-
pressed and his independence is buried
in a deep, deep grave. He wouldn't
cherish an idea of his own for the world,
for fear he might be accused of being dis-
loyal to his party. If a thing emanates
from the boss it is right, if it emanates
from some other source it can’t be right.
That is the head, body and tail of his
creed. Legislation suits him or unsuits
him, not according to its effect upon him,
but according to whether itis made by
his party or the other partv. Use me
and abuse me, rule me and fool me, but
give me an office. That is his motto,
and what does he generally get? Fleeced
by the bosses who make the laws and
left by the bosses who parcel out the
nominations and offices. What is the
moral? Taboo the bosses and think and
In speaking of the great improvements
being added to the Meyersdale water
works, the Commercial calls attention to
the fact that other towns talk of improve-
ments, while Meyersdale goes ahead and
makes improvements. And that’s just
where the Commercial tells the truth.
What the people of this town must do is
to act on improvements as well as to talk
of them. Almost daily you can hear our
citizens talking of the great importance
of changing the name of this borough,
also of the great importance of having
electric light and a board of trade. But
it all ends in talk, which should not be
the case. Salisbury is to becomplimented
for her enterprise in certain directions,
but there are yet many things lacking
that could easily be obtained—things that
would add greatly to the town’s prosper-
ity and growth.
Fellow citizens, why talk and nod ap-
provingly of the improvements suggested
from time to time by Tue STAR, and then
let matters rest at that? Why not make
an_ effort to carry out the ideas you all
seem to approve? Take a lesson from
Meyersdale and profit by it. In some re-
spects our town is far more favored than
Meyersdale, but owing to a lack of en-
terprise, it is doing without many things
that would make it almost the equal and
in some respects the superior of the large
thriving borough that has grown out of
the little hamlet that not many years ago
From the N. Y. Press.
One year ago the prosperity of this na-
tion was at high water mark. Eighteen
hundred and ninety-two was the banner
year of American industrial progress.
During the twelve months ending at
midnight on the thirty-first day of last
December the American people produced
more and consumed more than in any
year of their history. Our foreign trade
broke all records by its magnitude. The
volume of our industrial production and
of our exchange of products among our-
selves went far beyond all precedent.
We produced a million tons more of pig
iron than in 1891, and $2,000,000 tons
more than Great Britain. We produced
200,000 tons of steel rails more than in
the preceding year. We consumed 59,-
000,000 pounds more wool than in 1891.
Capital and labor were alike fully and
profitably employed. The factory wheels
revolved unceasingly. Wages were high-
er than ever before. Confidence was
universal. Credit was freely extended.
The integrity of the currency was assured.
There were fewer commercial tailures
than in any vear since 1882. The crea-
tion of wealth for the nation and compe-
tence for the toiler went on apace under
the shield of America’s second Declara-
tion of Independence, the McKinley law.
Until the Bourbons and the Socialists
elected Grover Cleveland there was ev-
ery prospect that the same conditions
would prevail during 1893. The capital
of the nation, the executive ability of its
leaders of industry, the enterprise of its
merchants and the skill of its trained
workers were at the highest point on No-
vember 8 when the Democratic party
triumphed on a platform that declared
war on every American interest. With
the election of Cleveland manufacturers
and merchants began to trim their sails
in anticipation of the coming storm.
With the inauguration of Cleveland the
storm burst. Confidence vanished. Cred-
it led. Capital hid itself. Securities in
which a large proportion of the coun-
try’s wealth was invested rapidly dwin-
dled in value till the loss to the people ex-
ceeded $1.000.000,000. Bank after bank
went to the wall. The liabilities of com-
mercial failures for the first six months
of the year were more than double those
of the corresponding period of 1892.
Menaced by revolution, American indus-
tries ceased to expand and began to ret-
rograde. Production has fallen and wa-
ges have fallen with it. Every plate glass
factory in the country has shut down.
The great iron mines of the Northwest
have suspended operations. Blast fur-
nace fires are being banked. Trade bal-
ances are against us. Textile mills are
everywhere closing or restricting their
product. The prices of wool and wheat
have sunk to a ruinous figure. The farm-
er suffers with the merchant and the
manufacturer. Tens of thousands of
American workingmen who last vear
were busy and prosperous are idle and
facing destitution today.
The Press asserts explicitly and direct-
ly that the prevailing conditions of disas-
ter have been brought about by the threat
of Demoeratic free trade. It asserts that
the loss of the people through the depre-
ciation of securities, the paralysis of cred-
it and the stagnation of industries would
not have taken place if Benjamin Har-
rison had been elected instead of Grover
Cleveland. The Press challenges Demo-
cratic newspapers to deny this statement.
Is there one Democratic organ that dares
to assert that the disaster which has
come upon the country since March 4
would have occurred if the Republican
party had continued to control the gov-
ernment?
Many men think that
men are persistent dunners. By way of
comparison, let us suppose that a farmer
raises 1,000 bushels of wheat a year and
sells this to 1,000 persons of the country,
a great portion of them saying, “I will
hand you a dollar in a short time.” The
farmer does not want to be small, and
says, ‘“‘all right.” Soon the 1,000 bushels
are gone and he has nothing to show for
it, and then he realizes that he has fooled
away his whole crop and its value to him
is due in a thousand little driblets, con-
sequently he is seriously embarrassed in
his business because his debtors each ow-
ing him a dollar treat it as a small mat-
ter and think it would not help much.
Continue this kind of business year in
and year out as the publisher does, how
long would he stand it? A moment's
thought will convince anyone that the
publisher has cause for persistent dun-
ning. —Ex.
We are informed that there is an
Amishman up in the country, one who
claims to be well posted, but who at the
same time exposes his lack of knowledge
by declaring that Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated before General Lee surren-
dered. We have been asked to inform
him of his mistake. The man can in-
form himself of his mistake, if he will re-
fer to the pages of any United States his-
tory. Almost every 10-year-old school
boy knows that Lincoln was not assassi-
nated until after Lee's surrender.
Occasionally there afe people who set
up a howl because they are visited hy
some of their friends and the fact is not
recorded in the local paper. Evidently,
some people think an editor ought to be
like God—able to see all people, at all
times and in all places. But an editor
isn’t built that way. There are lots of
visitors coming and going that he knows
nothing of, unless some one tells him.
We are always glad to receive news items
from our friends, but those people who
do not take enough interest in their home
paper or in their guests to report the
news to the editor, should not make a
laughing stock of themselves bv growl-
ing about the non-appearance of things
that they would like to see in print.
Some people can not see very far into
things that ought to be plain even unto
fools; but there are no others so blind
as those who do not want to see.
A very interesting meeting of the Jr.
O. U. A. M,, open to the public, was
held in their hall on Centre street, Tues-
day evening. It is not often that so
much talent is represented in a single
evening's program, and those who at-
tended were well rewarded for their
pains. The Junior Mechanics are a no-
ble organization, which is doing much to
neutralize the mischievous and un-Amer-
ican influences of foreign socialists, an-
archists, and other disturbers who abuse
our hospitality while seeking an asylum
on our shores, bv encouraging the spirit
of patriotism and loyalty. Such an or-
ganization should receive the hearty en-
dorsement of the American people.—
Meyersdale Register.
A Perplexing Family.
The strangest combinations resulting
from the marriage of relatives. that we
have ever heard of is that in the family
of Lewis Osborne, who has recently re-
moved to Pomona from Selma, Fresno
county. Mr. Osborne tells us that he has
been 10 years trying to unravel the per-
plexities of relationship that his second
marringe has caused. In 1888 he married
a young widow, who was his own grand-
father's third wife.
little son.
The couple have a
Given this simple statement and a num-
ber of peculiar family relationships may
be deduced. For example. Mr. Osborne
is a grandchild of his wife. His son be
ing also a son of his (Osborne’s) grand-
mother, is uncle to his own father. Os-
borne becomes a brother to his uncles
and aunts and also a stepfather to them.
The boy, being the child of Osborne as a
grandson, is thereby a great-grandson of
his own mother, while his father may re-
joice in the title of great-grandfather to
his own child. Thus the boy becomes a
granduncle to himself and his parents’
great-grandchild. Osborne is the boy's
father and great-grandfather at the same
time, and, being the husband of his own
grandmother, enjovs the distinction of
being his own grandfather as well. —Po-
mona (Cal.) Progress.
Charley Plitt had an experience with
a calf at Rockwood, yesterday, he won't
forget soon. He had it at the station to
ship, when it kicked him in the stomach
and bruised him considerably. Then it
skedadled, and crossed the river, followed
by Charley and two others; there it
leaped over him as he was about to grasp
the rope tied around its neck and escaped
in the laurel. Charley returned home a
sadder, wetter, and badly-used up man.
—Commercial.
Wives and mothers, do not fail to read
the large advertisement of the Ohio Chem -
ical Co., in this issue. It may be the
means of saving your son or husband.