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VOLUME II.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1803.
+ NUMBER 3.
Established 1852.
—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.
BEACHY 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-
gies, Carriages and Phaetons.
We also handle the best of Stoves, Ranges, Cutlery, Silverware, Harness, Saddles,
Horse Blankets, Lap Spreads, Tinware, Guns, Revolvers, Pumps, Tubing, Churns,
Wash Machines, etc.
NOW 1S THE TIME 10° PAINT.
brush up, improve and beautify your buildings, Tences 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. Lickliter,
— 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 F'lour,
nmong them *‘Pillsbury’s Best,” the best flour in the world, “Vienna,” “Irish Patent,” ‘Sea Foam”
=nd Royal.
GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal, Oat Meal and Lima Beans. - I also handle
N
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 prices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
LOOK HERE!
Read, Ponder, Reflect and Act,
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Act Quickly. Come and
J SEH
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? I
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
+ first-class general merchandise store.
Clothing, MEN'S CLOTHING!
1 desire to close out my stock of Men's clothing. Great
l..rgains are offered in Suits, Overcoats and Pantaloons.
* The early bird catches the worm.”
[ would announce to my patrons and prospective patrons
iat I continually keep on hand a full line of the Celebrated
‘Talker Boots and Shoes. I also carry a lice of the Fam-
«18 Sweet, Orr & Co. Goods, Pants, Overalls, Blouses,
tairts, etc. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting a
ntinuance of same, I remain very respectfully
J. L. BARCHUS, Salisbury, Fa.
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Speicher’s Drug Store!
Behold We Are Come! Selah!
And verily we are here to stay. Immov-
able as the Pyramids of Egypt or a grease
spot on a pair of ice eream trousers. And
we have with us a full stock of the purest
and freshest Drugs, Patent Medicines,
Druggists’ Sundries, Soap, Perfumes, Toi-
let Articles, choicest assortment of Stationery
and Books in town, Jewelry, Spectacles, etc.
Arctic Soda Water
and Hire's Root Beer constantly on draught.
Ice Cream Soda every Saturday afternoon
and evening.
Prompt attention and satisfaction guar-
anteed. A. F. SPEICHER, Prop.,
: Elk Lick, Pa.
20 Per Cent.
Dividend!
By having your money invested, you
will receive an annual dividend of 8 or
10 per cent, but by buying my goods,
the money you save therefrom will be
equal to a 20 per cent. dividend; not only
annually, but at every daily purchase.
You all complain of hard times, but what
makes hard times? Paying $1.00 for 80
cents worth of goods. Compare these
prices with others:
Sweet Potatoes, 30 cents a peck.
Water Melons, 30 cents a piece.
Bananas, 3 for 5 cents.
Fruit Jars, 75 cents a dozen.
Dairy Salt, 1 cent a 1b.
Beans, 5 cents a lb.
Cantaloupes, 8 to 15 cents.
Coal Oil, 12 cents a gall.
All other goods in proportion.
Iam now taking orders for Sweet Potatoes;
anyone not having given me their order will
please do #0 at once, as now is the time to buy.
Prices range from $2.00 to $2.25 a barrel, deliv-
ered. : WILLIAM PETRY,
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
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.
.A. WARE,
writes: “From
Jour Lightning
my 500 addre:
0 Parcels o
y addresses you scattered
among publishers and manufacturers,
are arriving daily, on valuable parcels
of mail from all parts of the World.”
World's Fair Directory Co.,
402 Girard and Frankford Avenues, Phila., Pa.
BILLMEYER & BALLIET,
ELK LICK, PICNNA.,
—Manufacturers Of—
Pine, Hemlock and Oak
Lumber.
Having purchased the Beachy tract of
timber, adjoining the borough of Salis-
bury, we are especially well prepared to
furnish first-class Chestnut Fencing Posts,
which we will sell at very reasonable
prices.
Also have about 1000 choice Lo-
cust posts for sale.
Bill Lumber a Specialty.
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-
vineed 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.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
T he 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 eure for CONSUMPTION,
AsTEMA, CATARRH, BRONCHITIS and all throat
and lung Marapies. 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-
ress,
Rev. EpwaArD A. WiLsoN, Brooklyn, New York.
TOPICS find COMMENT.
SENATOR HILL seems to regard Secre-
tary Gresham as one of his possible rivals
in "96.
SILVER speeches were plentiful enough
in the House, but a majority®f the votes
were gold.
IT looks to a man up a tree more like
underdistribution than overproduction
that the country is suffering with.
WouLDN'T you feel very different if the
President and the Congress were Repub-
lican—honest Injun?—Wheeling Intelli-
gencer.
Tre Congressional Record reads as
though most of its contributors were
working on a space rate, under a lazy
and indulgent managing editor.
SHOULD the Silver Democrats decide to
bring a suit for breach of promise, they
would be in doubt whether to make their
own leaders or the Republicans defend-
ents.
STARVATION, and even hunger, ought
to be inheard of in the country which
leads the world in the production of
bread-stuffs, and would be if there were
no such thing as speculation in such
products.
TrE Kansas Populists, erstwhile
known as ‘‘calamity howlers,” have
turned the tables rather neatly by pro-
posing to donate provisions for the relief
of the calamity-stricken unemployed of
the eastern cities.
Ir is extremely difficult to say just how
near one man could come to thoroughly
dominating even such a big country as
the United States. A strong will and a
bull-dog persistency are powerful weap-
ons for the control of man.
THE people are crying for bread and
Congress is offering them talk.—New
York World.
The people are only getting what the
World urged them to vote for, last fall.
Why should they cry?
SoME of the Democratic papers are
contending that the times are not in the
least dull during this administration, but
the Democratic Hebron (Neb.) Register
is not one of them. The Register sizes
up-the situation as follows:
‘‘The greatest calamity howler in the
country never could have come anywhere
near the calamity that the country is
cursed with just at the present time.”
RETRENCHMENT in New England tex-
tile mills is a sign of health rather than
disorder.—New York world.
Starvation is recommended by a certain
set of cranks in medicine as an excellent
health preservative.—Albanv Journal.
Such a diet might agree with the Presi-
dent's health better than with the ‘poor
people” about whom he was so much
concerned before election, if appearances
are any indication.—American Econo-
mist.
Now, if the producers of the country
believe that a change of tariff duties is
imminent, they will prepare forit. They
must prepare for it. If they believe that
the industrial policy of the country which
has prevailed for more than thirty vears
and to which all values and business
have been adjusted is to be changed or
reversed, the ordinary instincts of pru-
dence demand them to get ready for the
new conditions necessitated by the pro-
posed new policy. They will raise or
lower scales according to the probabili-
ties.— Wm. McKinley, Jr.
TrE Minneapolis Journal bends its ear
to the ground to hear of the suspension
of a farmer this season, but confesses that
while the banks and the mills are shut-
ting down in every direction the farmer
keeps right on harvesting his crops and
issuing corn, wheat, potatoes and fat
hogs. just as if nothing had fallen on him.
And while every other capitalist has to
run the gauntlet of labor strikes and boy-
cotts, the farmer's hired man never or-
ganizes a union or hangs him up between
the heavens and the earth just as he is
going to husk his corn or get in his hay.
THis is the way the Democratic Som-
erset Vedetie sizes up our Wm. McKinley,
the great tariff champion:
Major McKinley is not only a brilliant,
but an honest and capable man, and has
made a good governor; but if his defeat
in Ohio, this fall, means his return to
Congress, where he could defend the
tariff as no other tariff advocate could,
we would rather see him re-elected gov-
ernor. The safest place for Major Mc-
Kinley, so far as the Democratic party is
concerned, isin the gubernatorial chair
of Ohio.
Tae Manufacturers’ Club refused to in-
dorse Mr. Dolan’s position that the Sher-
man law is wholly responsible for the
present financial depression. By a vote
of nearly five to one the club expressed
its opinion that “the stringency in the
money market, the stoppage of industrial
enterprises, the failure of financial insti-
tutions, and the general depression of
business have been caused chiefly by the
decision of the people at the polls in No-
vember last that the sys em of protection
to American industry, under which the
nation has prospered for thirty years in a
degree without precedent, should be over-
thrown.”
A max looking for work in Ohio said
to a farmer: “Can vou give me work?”
The farmer said he had some sheep to
shear if he could find a man who knew
how to shear. The man said he learned
that business and considered himself an
expert. He was told to go to the barn
where he could find shears and commence
shearing. The farmer went “out to see
how the man was getting along, but to
his surprise found the shearer shearing
the sheep from the wrong end. The
farmer said: ‘“That will never do, you
told me that you understood shearing
sheep.” *Yes, sir, F told you so, but
since Grover Cleveland's election and the
fall in wool, T have been ashamed to look
a sheep in the face.”
Last Saturday will be a day that Sec-
retary Hoke Smith will remember for the
balance of his life. as he was hanged in
effigy by the enraged citizens of Rome. a
little town of Adams county. A number
of pensions have been suspended there,
creating much ill-feeling, but the climax
was reached when the pension of J. L.
Reed, a veteran of the Eleventh Illinois
cavalry, aged 83, was stopped. Reed
served four years and five months. and
his pension was his only support. When
he received news of the suspension he
became a raving maniac. The aroused
citizens, led by John Furnier, a Demo-
crat, hanged Smith in effigy in the pres-
ence of over 1000 people, irrespective of
party affiliations.—San Jacinto Register.
WmLE Northern Democrats are as use-
ful to their Southern brethren on election
day as they were before the war, they
are given frequent reminders that when
the turkey is carved they are expected to
eat at the second table. Speaker Crisp
has just issued another such reminder in
his list of committee chairmanships.
Each committee has almost absolute con-
trol of legislation on the subjects within
its jurisdiction, and the chairman holds
the commanding position on his commit-
tee. If we include in the Southern group
along with the old Confederate states. as
the Post does when it misrepresents the
revenue paid by the South, the states of
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West
Virginia. the 15 Southern states get 32 of
these chairmanships, and the 29 North-
ern, Eastern and Western states have the
remaining 23, most of them of minor im-
portance. Of the 10 leading committecs,
8 have Southern chairmen, to-wit: Ways
and Means, Coinage, Weights and Meas-
ures, Appropriations, Inter-State and For-
eign Commerce, Rivers and Harbors,
Foreign Affairs, Pensions, and Elections.
Leaving out the four border states be-
fore mentioned, the 11 Southern states
which composed the Confederacy have
23 chairmanships, exactly as many as the
29 states of the North, East and West.
The 11 ex-Confederate states had a pop-
ulation of 15.706.275 in 1890; the 29
which equal them in chairmanships had
39,860,717.
However, since Speaker Crisp can easi-
ly remember the old days when Southern
orators preached that one Gray-back was
equal to five Blue Bellies, he may look
upon this reduetion of the ratio to 1
equals 2 3-5 and exclaim, with Warren
Hastings, “By heaven, sirs, I am aston-
ished at my own moderation.”—Pittsburg
Times.
Tue Burlington Hawkeye shows up
the President’s declaration that after the
financial question is settled the tariff will
be attacked. It gives the following cate-
chism:
What was the great, the overshadow-
ing issue of the last campaign?
The tariff.
And who was elected President on that
“overshadowing issue?”
Grover Cleveland.
Now that he has been elected and in-
ducted into office, what does he say to
Congress and the country in his first mes-
sage?
He says: “With plenteous crops; with
abundant promises of remunerative pro-
duction and manufacture, with unusual
invitation to safe investment and with
satisfactory assurance to business enter-
prise, suddenly financial distrust and fear
have sprung up on every side.”
Why, thisis, indeed, singular; when
did the ‘‘distrust and fear” begin?
Almost immediately after the last Pres-
idential election.
The cause of these disasters was the
“robber tariff,” was it not?
No, the President says: *I believe
these things are principally chargeable
to Congressional legislation touching the
purchase and coinage of silver by the
general government.”
In what way, then, bas the ‘““oppres-
sive, burdensome and unconstitutional
tariff tax” affected the country?
The President says he found the peo-
ple blessed with “abundant promise of
remunerative production and mannfact-
ure,” and also that there was an unusual
invitation to safe investment and with
satisfactory assurance to business enter-
prise.
Could this propitious and “satisfactory”
condition of things be equally said of
other countries?
No.
Then, it our present troubles are ‘‘prin-
cipally chargeable” to Silver legislation,
and if under our present tariff laws the
President found the country enjoying an
‘“‘nnusual” prosperity, why should Con-
gress tinker with the tariff and further
disturb commercial values and business
interests?
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
Troe Best SALVE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
tively cures Piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by A. F. Speicher,
druggist. .
The People’s Column.
What 1s approved, what condemned and
what eriticised.
§£2F Nore:—This column is open to everybody,
but it must be borne in mind that no personal
quarrels will be allowed to be conducted through
it. The objects of this column are for the gener-
al good of the town and country at large, but it
must be borne in mind that the editor is not re-
sponsible for the opinions of contributors. Re-
member, it is the people’s column; the editor
shall not write a word for it.
WEST SALISBURY, PA.. Aug. 29th.
Eprror Star: —I wish to contribute
something to the Péople’s column which
I think is in order, although I will not be
offended if it finds its way into the waste
basket.
Here is what I have to say: There is
a so-called fish and game association in
this locality, the members of which pre-
tend to see to it that violators of the fish
and game laws are duly prosecuted and
fined. Now, the pretended objects of
this association are all right, but there
are no attempts made to carry them out.
The whole thing is a sham, and the mem-
bers of the association are having a mo-
nopoly of shooting game and taking fish
out of season themselves. They ought
to be watched up and handled to the full
extent of the law. It is bad enough for
anyone to violate the law, and all trans-
gressors should be punished; but itis a
double outrage when the very people
that pretend to see that the laws are com-
plied with are the greatest transgressors
themselves. OBSERVER.
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Mgr. Eprror:—With malice toward
none, I will write upon a subject that I
trust will do some good to the public in
general by putting some life and activity
into some of our clerks.
Did you ever notice that some of the
clerks in Salisbury stores are about the
slowest mortals on earth? I have noticed
that some of them scarcely know whether
they ought to wait on a customer or not,
judging from the unconcerned attitude
they maintain and their slowness in wait-
ing on a purchaser. Some of these pain-
fully slow clerks ought to wear a live
hornets’ nest on the inside of the seat of
their trowsers, to promote activity. I be-
lieve that is about the only remedy that
would help them.
Another thing pertaining to our stores
that mention ought to be made of, is this:
A few of our stores are closed too much
of the time and people are getting tired
of it. If a merchant wants to do busi-
ness, his place of business should be kept
open during business hours.
CasH CUSTOMER.
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EDITOR STAR: —As a citizen and tax
payer of Salisbury borough, I wish to
protest against the horrible condition our
main street is in. I refer to the botched
job of piking. The stone crusher used
is a humbug and does not break stones
as fine as it should. Just look at the
large quantity of ugly loose stones on the
part of the street that was piked! The
piking referred to is a disgrace to the
town and the road is in a worse condition
than before. It is a job that the borough
officers ought to be ashamed of, but it
can be greatly improved if the loose
stones are gathered up and hauled away.
WIDE AWAKE.
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