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VOLUME II.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1393.
NUMBER 36.
Hstablished 1852.
P. S. HAY,
—DEALER IN—
GENERAL .. MERCHANDISE.
The pioneer and leading Seneral 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 favars, and soliciting your very
valued patronage, I remain yours truly, P. S. HAY,
Salisbury, Pa., Jan. 2d, 1893.
BEACHY Bros.
Dealers In HH 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-
gies, Carriages and Phaetons.
We also handle the best of Stoves, Ranges, Cutlery, Silverware, Harness, Saddles,
Hlorse Blankets, Lap Spreads, Tinware, Guns, Revolvers, Pumps, Tubing, Churns,
Eg THE TIME 0 P A MN,
NOW
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,
trade, we are, respectfully,
BEACHY BROS. Salisbury,
Mrs. S. A. Lichliter,
— Dealer In All Kinds Of—
GRAIN, FLOUR And FEED.
> CORN, GATS, 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.
All Grades of Sugar,
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{oad lots, and will be sold at lowest prices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
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I also handle
I desire to close out my stock of Men's clothing.
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Shirts, etc.. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting a
continuance of same, I remain very respectfully
J. L. BARCHUS, Salisbury, Pa.
Frank Petry,
Carpenter And Builder,
Elk Lick, Pa.
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prices that are right, give me a call. I also do
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TOPICS find COMMENT.
Cheer up, cheer up, the country won't
Be always In this fix;
A big Republican victory
Will come in ninety-six.
—Kansas City Journal.
Tue saddest thoughts of many men:
“We voted for Grover and not tor Ben.”
—Ex,
TrOSE congratulations seem to have
gotten several trains ahead of Mr. Cleve-
land’s new baby, somehow or other.
Dox’tT growl about the hard times. Mr.
Democrat. Remember you voted for a
change, last fall, and now vou’ve got it.
THE discovery that Mount St. Helena
is an active volcano, comes in good time;
the state of Washington offers this addi-
tional attraction to the autumn tourist.
How does it strike you to increase the
amount of money in circulation by pay-
ing your debts? This isn’t intended to
be personal, but it is both pertinent and
practical.
This is the way the Demoor atic Mem-
phis Appeal Avalanche tries to soothe
the restless feelings of the thousands of
idle laborers: *‘Be cheerful; if you can’t
pay you can pray.”
IT would be just as well to find ont who
is to furnish the Commissary department
of that army of idle workingmen itis
proposed to have march on to Washing-
ton, before enlisting therein.
UxcLE SAM should lose no time in mar-
rying that Minnesota widow who has re-
ceived notice that she is heiress to a $25,-
000,000 estate in India. Something must
be done to put money in circulation.
Ir there exists a man who thinks that
political platforms are constructed for
any other purpose than to juggle with
votes, he should read the speeches made
in the House during the Silver debate.
CLEVELAND rather banks on his brevi-
ty, yet he used about 3,000 words to say
in substance: “Repeal the silver pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law, and
don’t for tne life of you go fooling with
the tariff till we get out of the hole we're
already in.”—Ex.
TaE corn crop and the cotton crop are
good. The cattle on a thousand hills are
fat. The wool crop and the fruit crop
never better. It is only the political crop
that is a failure. Grin and bear it and
make a change when the time comes.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Time works wondrous changes. The
other day two brave soldiers, Congress-
man Boutelle and General Sickles, stood
before the Speaker's desk and took an
oath to support the constitution and laws
of the United States. Thirty years ago
the man who administered the oath was
trying his best to destroy the Govern-
ment.—Ex.
Tre Democrats of Ohio have nomi-
nated Lawrence T. Neal as Governor Mc-
Kinley’s opponent. The Buckeye Dem-
ocrats have tried overything else to beat
McKinley and now they are willing to
kneel, but even their humility won't win.
—Somerset Standard.
THE people of this country are not so
much interested in coining more silver
or less silver as they are in the coining
of confidence. The administration could
coin a big lot of confidence and set the
wheels of progress in motion, very quick-
ly, if an official statement would be made
that the present tariff laws will not be
tampered with.
Ir Benjamin Harrison had been re-
elected President, the country would not
have had the present panic. That is not
all. The panic being here because of
“the change,” if it had been possible to
“change” back at once and to place im-
mediately in the Presidential chair Benja-
min Harrison, or any Republican of his
quality and views, the panic would have
been stayed, and that is not all. The
panic being on, if Grover Cleveland's
honest purpose to do the right thing on
the Silver issue had been joined with a
clearer grasp of what to do and how to
do it, the panic would not have heen
stayed, but it would have been greatly mit-
igated. A sound heart anda firm will are
much in such a crisis; but a sound heart
and a firm will united with a sure head
and an unerring hand are much more.—
Philadelphia Press.
Some rabid Republican papers are lound-
ly declaring that under the present Dem-
ocratic administration all the great in-
dustries have shut down. Now, this is
not true, and it does the Democratic ad-
ministration an injustice. THE STAR is
a Republican paper itself, but it believes
in giving the devil his dues. It isall
bosh to say that all the great industries
have shut down under the Democratic
administration. For instance, there is
Mr. Maxwell's great industry running
full time; the same can also be said of
Hoke Smith’s industry, and Tne STAR
does not believe a word of it that the
Democratic administration is shutting
down the distilleries in this county. The
idea that the Democratic party would
shut off any of the liquor supply! Nev-
er, never, would it do such”a thing.
Rats! Bah! Bosh!
SENATOR HILL wishes the business of
the extra session confined to financial
questions, but his colleagues do not seem
to be of his disposition, as they have al-
ready introduced a large mass of miscella-
neous measures. Congressman William
Springer has a limited program for
the extra session, but considerable fuller
than Sanator Hill’s. Mr. Springer thinks
that Congress before adjourning ought to
repeal the Sherman silver law, revise the
tariff, revise the Federal election laws,
pass a constitutional amendment prolong-
ing the Presidential term to six vears,
revise the pension laws, and provide for
the admission of Arizona, New Mexico,
Utah and Oklahoma into the Union of
states. If Mr. Springer has his way it is
clear that we will have Congress with us
continuously until the dog days of 1894.
—Philadelphia Press.
A crowD of Texas Democrats have
hanged President Cleveland in effigy,
shot the effigy full of holes, and then
burned it up, because of his message
against free coinage. And yet those of
them who could read must have known
before the election that he was opposed
to free coinage of silver—before they
voted for him, just as they will vote for
the next Democratic candidate for Pres-
ident, without regard to his opinions.
That's Texas fashion. The only wonder
is that thev exhausted their indignation
on a mere effigy, when there must have
been a fat negro somewhere catchable
whom they could have branded with the
President's name and used instead, there-
by expressing their feelings and also
amusing the women and children, after
the true Texas fashion. We fear these
Texans were a poor-spirited lot, and not
of the first families.—Pittsburg Times.
ReceENT decisions of several courts in
the state have about definitely outlined
the sources from which auditors are ex-
pected to draw their pay for their various
services at election time. Judge McPher
son, of Lebanon, and Judge Simonton,
of Dauphin county. have concurred in
the decree that for holding meetings for
receiving certificates of nominations, and
nomination papers, hearing objections
thereto. and withdrawals and filling out
certificates for watchers, the township
must pay the auditors, but for arranging
ballots, correcting proof, going to and
from the printing office and distributing
ballots to the proper officers of any town-
ship, the cost must be paid by the county
commissioners. Such a rule seems ex:
ceedingly explicit and should obviate any
future misunderstanding between audit-
ors, their townships and the county
commissioners about pay for the election
services rendered.—Somerset Herald.
Francis Murpeny, the well known tem-
perance advocate, claims that the exces-
sive use of intoxicants is on the decrease.
One of the chief causes for this, he says,
is the demand of business which from its
greater exactions requires more sobriety
than in past time. Competition is fierce
and the responsibility that must be placed
upon men in these days requires a clear
head and a steady hand. Many leading
firms and some railroads refuse now to
employ men who over-indulge in liquors,
all of which is working out a temperance
reform of itself. 1t is probable that Mr.
Murphy is right. The great opportuni-
ties he has had for observing the progress
of the temperance cause during twenty
years past makes his opinion of especial
value. His statement will encourage
temperance workers who have heen de-
pressed hy the failure of political prohi-
bition, and it will strengthen their belief
thiat practical, business methods are the
most effective in curing the evil. —Phila-
delphia Press.
AsouT 200 veteran pensioners are vic-
tims of Hoke Smith’s suspension of pen-
sions in this county, some in Dayton, but
most at the Soldiers’ Home. About thirty
received notice yesterday that they would
have to go to the expense of again prov.
Among them
the Soldiers’
ing their right to pensions.
were the following at
Home: —
Daniel B. McCormick, aged 76.
Thirteenth West Virginia Infantry:
less.
Joseph C. Ming. aged 74. of the Fifth
Pennsylvania Cavalry; helpless.
Martin Weld, aged 74, of the One Hun-
dred and Third Pennsylvania Infantry:
helpless.
Louis Chamberlain, aged 60, of the
Rhode Island Infantry; in the last stages
of consumption.
Alexander Thompson, One Hundred
and Forty-third Pennsylvania Infantry;
helpless from rhenmatism.
Joel C. Rarry, Ninety seventh Ohio
Volunteer Intantrv: a helpless epileptic.
Matthias Smith, 73 years, of the Eight}.
eth [linois; helpless.
Perry Foster. aged 70; helpless.
Charles Bloquet, aged 77, of the Elev:
enth Minnesota; helpless.
Unless a halt is called on these outrages
on veterans, the Democratic party will
have no following among soldiers any-
where.—Dayton Journal.
of the
help-
Last week there appeared in the Som-
erset Vedette a communicated article per-
taining to some features of our county
schools, in which the writer of said arti-
cle gets off a great deal of good sense.
Among other truthful statements, the
writer had this to say:
“The children are graduated and re-
ceive diplomas at an age when gradua-
tion is a farce, and their diplomas are a
libel on the intelligence of the County
Superintendent, the school directors, the
parents and the children themselves.
And yet, every graduate is entitled to re-
ceive from the County Superintendent a
certificate, and the only
chance that officer has to prevent the hold-
ers from teaching is to mark such certifi-
cate, ‘Invalid by reason of age.” Why
issue such a certificate? Whenever such
a certificate is issued. that certificate
bears on its fuce the insignia of fraud.
No one has a right to have a certificate,
if for any reason that certificate is marked
or otherwise declared ‘invalid. Here is
the vice of the system. Pupils are sent
forth to the world, and upon the world,
under false pretenses. The false pretens
es made to their parents and to them, un-
happily, are that they
that they are scholars;
to commence and continue
life.
provisional
know something;
that they are fitted
the battle of
‘Thev tell a lie!
An odious lie! a lie! a lie!
Upon my soul a lie! a wicked lie!’
Why? Because they nothing,
though they are taught to believe that
they do. They have not learned thor-
oughly the merest rudiments of an edu-
cation. They are sent out to the world
crippled by pride. egotism, vanity and
ignorance. And because they hold di-
plomas they are ashamed to present them-
selves ever after at the school room for
instruction. They know it all! Parents
would be doing their children service
for which they would be gratefully 1e-
membered by them in years to come if
they would refuse to permit them to ac-
cept these written slanders on the good
sense of a long suffering community, and
would keep them at school for at least
three years longer.”
know
Slobber.
New York Times (Dem.)
Today the whole country, with no dis-
tinction of party, regards his (Mr. Cleve-
land's) enforced retirement from the cap-
ital for even a brief interval with sympa-
thy and solitude. He is followed to his
seaside home by the sincerely affection-
ate wishes of hundreds of thousands of
his fellow-citizens, deeply gratetul for
the faitliful and noble service he has ren-
dered and as deeply anxious that his
strength and health may be restored to
complete the great work for which he
alone is supremely fitted and to enjoy
through a long life the reward of honor *
to which he is entitled.
Two of a Kind.
MESSAGE OF James BucnHaNAN, DEc. 81H, 1857: —
With unsarpassed plenty in allthe productions
and all the elements of natural wealth four man-
ufacturers have suspended: our public works
are retarded ; our private enterprises of different
kinds are abandoned; and thousands of useful
laborers are thrown out of employment and re-
duced to want. We have possessed all the ele-
ments of material wealth in rich abundance, and
yet, notwithstanding all these advantages, our
country, in its monetary interest, is in a deplor-
able condition.
MESSAGE OF GROVER CLEVELAND, AUG. 8TH,
1893: —With plenteous crops, with abundang pro-
mise of remunerative production and manufaet-
ure, with unusual invitation to safe investments
and with satisfactory assurance to business en-
terprises, suddenly financial distrust and fear
have sprung up on every side.
The above are both messages from
Democratic Presidents, and while they
are separated by a third of a century of
Republican rule and prosperity, it is
plain to see that a Democratic adminis-
tration is a misfortune to the country to-
day as well as it was a third of a century
ago. The extracts of the two messages
both tell the same tale of woe, and both
were written by Democratic Presidents
supported by a Democratic Senate and
Congress. The poet has truely said: —
Tis a glorious prospect, truly, for many a thriv-
ing town,
But it peters out so easy
When =
The
Mills
Shut
Down!
Raiding the Pension Roll.
'Tis thirty years, today, Bill.
Since we joined the ranks of those,
‘Who left their homes and fire-sides
To face the country’s foes.
The 'morn we marched away, Bill,
Our eyes with tears were blind:
When the band that led our column
Plaved “The Girls We Left Behind.”
I was but a private, Bill,
And proud to wear the blue:
Whiie a pair of gilt-edged shoulder bats
Our company gave to you.
Your heart was warm and kind, Bill,
And we always found it true:
For when the fight was hottest,
We could always count on you.
You never snubbed a comrade, Bill,
Or put on lofty airs:
We never heard you curse or swear,
But we knew vou said prayers.
You were generous to a fault, Bill,
For, when our funds were low,
And a comrade needed money,
He knew just where to go.
The boys that followed you. Bill.
Were the ones that loved you best:
Some of them are living still,
And some have gone to rest.
You left an arm at Gettysburg,
But we never heard you grieve:
God bless you now and always, Bill,
While you wear the *‘empty sleeve.”
You're getting old and feeble, Bill,
With the weight of passing vears:
And when, at last, you're mustered out,
You'll leave the boys in tears.
There's many a loyal comrade, Bill,
That marched with you and me,
And some that followed Sherman
From Atlanta to the sea.
They are old, and grav, and feeble, Bill,
And haven't long to stay:
And wore the blue on many a field,
While Hoke SMITH wore the gray.
They are broken down in health, Bill,
And their strength. is almost gone;
There's nothing now that they can do
To help themselves along.
There's a policy on foot, Bill,
To raid the pension roll.
And he who leads the foul crusade,
Has neither heart nor soul.
The man who cursed the flag, Bill,
Our comrades fought to save,
Would take away their pittance
On the threshold of the grave.
They are dropping from the roll, Bill,
The men who fought and bled;
They would starve our comrades living,
And insult our comrades dead.
There's a day of vengeance coming, Bill,
And you and I know well,
That when the thunder breaks its chain
'T'will rock the gates of hell.
The clouds are gathering dark, Bill,
Let justice have its course:
The men who rob the soldiers now,
Will meet the soldiers curse.
—Cameron Press.
Origin of a Familiar Phrase,
An exchange has been investigating
the origin of the familiar phrase, “I ac-
knowledge the corn,” and has found that
hoth the origin and ihe significance of it
are set forth in an old volume of legal
anecdotes in the south. It savs that a
Negro in Georgia was once indicted for
stealing corn, but, to guard against a
possible acquittal on account of variance.
as was quite customary in criminal pro-
ceedings at the time, the accused was
charged in the indictment with stealing
one bushel of corn, one bushel of beans,
and a bushel of nearly every other kind
of produce. The poor Negro was natur-
ally quite bewildered at his multifarious
criminality, and when called upon to
plead, said he ‘acknowledged to de
” but denied ‘‘all de
den sass.”
corn, rest of de gat-