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VOLUME II.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1893.
NUMBER 51.
Established 1852.
P. S. HAY,
—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
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.
Mrs. S. A. Lichliter,
GRAIN. FLOUR And BEED.
CORN, OATS, MIDDLINGS, “RED DOG FLOUR,” FLAXSEED MEAL, in short all kinds of
=zround feed for stock. “CLIMAX FOOD,” a good medicine for stock.
All Grades of Flour,
“Irish Patent,” **Sea Foam"
nmong them *Pillsbury’s Best,” the best flour in the world, *Vieunn."
and Royal.
GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal. Oat Meal and Lima Beans.
All Grades of Sugar,
including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. These goods are principally bought in car
tond lots, and will be sold at lowest prices. Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in
STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA.
THEY HAVE GOT to GO!
HARD TIMES, HIGH PRICES and BIG PROFITS can’t exist in this town, be-
canse I have got the goods and make the prices that save people money. Have you
I ulso handle
THE LAST CALL
TO BARGAINS.
MY NEW SPRING STOCK
of Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps. Furnishing Goods, Notions, etc?
(iive me a call and see my line of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fine Shoes. Ox-
tord Ties and Slippers, also a nice line of Men's, Bovs” and Children’s Straw Halts.
Many thanks for past favors. I remain your friend,
GEO. K. WALKER.
C. T. Hay'’s Block, Salisbury, Pa.
seen
Established in 1880.
['isher’s Book Store, Somerset, Pa.
WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT: This large and heav-
ily stocked establishment is now fully stocked and ready for
the Fall and Winter trade.
The Wholesale department sells to 90 town and country merchants in this and ad-
inining counties and states. The attention of merchants and others in the Elk Lick and Meyers-
(ale coal regions is called to our stock, and their orders and the orders of others solicited.
Blank Books, Letter, Legal Cap, Foolscap and Box Paper. Envelopes. Inks, Pens, Pencils. Mucil-
nue. Pen Holders, Slates, Tablets, Justice's Blanks, School Books, School Supplies aud everything
1 sually sold at a well organized and well stocked stationery store, at best wholesale prices, The
serail trade is solicited for such goods as your home merchants do not supply. Mail orders prompt-
I attended to. CHAS. H. FISHER.
Greater Reduction in
Millinery Goods,
Trimmed Hats, etc. Unpar-
alleled bargains in good All
Silk Ribbons, 4 inches wide,
25 cents per yard; 214 inches
wide, only 15 cents. Aston-
ishingly cheap. Respectfully,
S. C. HARTLEY & Co.
WE ARE OVERSTOCKED
—WITH—
Bicycles!
We are giving our agents Hztra Induce-
ments for cash orders.
BEN HUR, $75 and $90.
CENTRAL, High Grade, $135.
Write for Big Discounts to Agents.
Address,
Central Cycle Mfg. Co.,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
P.L. LIVENGOOD, Agt. at Elk Lick, Pa.
MEYERNDALE JEWELER, T. W. GURLEY.
The Largest Stock of Jewelry in Somerset Coun-
ty and the Lowest Prices.
A VALUABLE HOLIDAY PRESENT
: t small cost---a subscription to The Star.
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watch by theft, and avoids injury to it from
dropping.
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cases bearing this trade mark—
All watch dealers sell them without extra cost.
Ask your jeweler for pamphlet, or send to
the manufacturers.
KeystoneWatch Case Co.,
PHILADELPHIA.
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.
have
A FINE HEARSE,
and all funerals entrusted to us will receive
prompt attention E
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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
You will
COME ON
and be convinced that I can do you good and
that T am not trving 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 nndersigned 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, (ArarrH, BRONCHITIS and all throat
and lung MarLapies. 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. Epwarp A, WiLsoN, Brooklyn, New York.
TOPICS find COMMENT,
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,
President Cleveland's message will
completely disappoint the country. Not
in what it says, but in that it does not
say, for a more tame, empty, inane mes
sage could not well be framed. Congie s
met with graver or more
momentous questions demanding high
statesmanship, comprehensive grasp and
sure decision. The
has rarely
country ex pected a
virile and illuminating discussion of
these transcendent subjects which,
whether approved or not, would at least
command respect by its vigor and
strength. Instead of such a positive and
robust treatment. we have nothing but a
feeble, rapid summary of department
reports. such as any chief clerk might
made. The shows a
strange lack both of grit and grip.
have message
inconclusive
through every topic and
So far as it can be
judged from its text, there is a surprising
This spiritless, colorless,
method runs
branch of the paper.
failure to appreciate the gravity of some
Here is the Treas-
ury face to face with a deficit which is
quite likely to reach seventy or seventy-
five millions for the
The gold
eighty
which
of the pending issues.
current fiscal
halance is
millions.
every thoughtful
regard with deep concern, not merely
as embarrassing the Government, but as
involving danger to the foundation and
security of our currency. Yet President
Cleveland touches it in the lightest man-
year.
nearly down to
This is a situation
observer must
ner possible. Without any warrant he
first puts the deficit at less than half
what it is certain to be, and then dis-
misses it with the simple expectation
that the new tariff and internad
measures will provide sufficient revenue.
What shalll meet the deficit
now he doesn’t suggest at all. Ile wants
the issue from
doubt, but whether he has any thought
indicate.
revenue
be done to
power to bonds freed
of making an issue he doesn’t
The only point where there is any ap-
proach to serious discussion is the tariff
question. It is tailed on to the end of
the message as if it were an after-thought,
and even here it has a dull, perfunctory,
mechanical tone in strange contrast with
the vigor of the President's former treat-
ment. The argument has no originality
and no force. If there was any hope in
any quarter that President
restrain and moderate the crusade ngainest
the
to disappointment. He committs him
self squarely and the
Wilson hill, and practically pledges the
power of the Administration to its pas
sage. The only pews in the message 18
the announcement that the tariff hill
which is destructive both to revenue and
be pieced 1x
incomes of corporations. With-
understood
the would
nation’s industries, it is doomed
unreservedly 10
industry is to out with a
on the
out being what is commonly
as an income tax, this is a tax on invest-
ors, and it is not likely to prove any
more acceptable.
Upon the burning question of Hawaii
the President suppresses all information
and evades every issue. He pursues his
policy of treating the judement of the
country with the contempt, and
it in ignorance of his plans. Tt
that Me.
would have heen published as it was,
had it not heen supposed that the infa
mous scheme of restoring the monarchy
was already consummated and would
coon become unknown. Since the reve-
lation was made while the scheme mis
carried at least for the time, the Presi:
dent savs nothing now hevond repeating
Mr. Gresham's assertion, whose falsity
has overwhelmingly established.
He does not disclose his instructions to
Minister Willis. [He does not define how
he proposes to cet up the Hawaiian throne
He does not submit his action to
Congress or the people. He simply tells
them in that after he shall
have worked out his project he will let
them know all about it. Tt is a con-
temptuous disregard of the right of the
people and their representatives to under-
stand and review the action of the Gov-
ernment on this vital question. Tt will
be strange if this extraordinary attitude
does not invoke an immediate response.
Congress ought to eall at once for all the
It onght to take prompt action
the consnmmation of this
the American
keeping
is plain
Gresham's letter
now never
been
again.
substance
papers.
to prevent
threatened crime against
nation and against Hawaii.
The other portions of the message are
of small consequence. They are for the
most part simply a dull and dreary recit-
al of the inconsequential matter ot ad
ministrative routine. In only one point
does the President rise out of these jejune
repetitions, and that is in dealing with the
pension question. Here he gets a little
Lot in his assumption and denunciation
of alleged frauds. But he the
Nobody objects to but
everybody approves the exposure and
What has excited
mistakes
real question,
stoppage of frauds.
co much indignation is the course of
Secretary Hoke Smith in assuming that
old pensioners were guilty until they
proved their innocence, and this question
the President does not meet at all. His
whole message will he an painful surprise
to the country which looked for a paper
that should at least show a just sense of
the present exigencies and which finds a
document as dull as a Patent Office re-
had more
THAT message might have
readers if it had been published as a serial.
It is to Van Alen’s credit that he did
not deny having made that big campaign
contribution.
Mr. CLEVELAND doesn’t object to free
trade. but he was half ashamed of its
twin brother. an income tax.
wrong. The treasurer of Bedford coun-
tv, Virginia, is $40.000 short.
Hoke Sarria, in his annual report,
made an unsuccessful attempt to defend
his treatment of the old soldiers.
ToeERE is one thing that Mr. Wilson
forgot to make free in his tariff bill—ra
tions for the thousands it will deprive of
emplosment.
MR. CLEVELAND'S team of wild horses
is again in harness, and he will again at-
tempt to repeat his recent success of
driving them his way against their incli-
nations.
ComMPTROLLER Eckels has discovered
that this has been a bad vear for banks.
If he wishes to pose as a modern Colum-
bus, he should discover something that
it hasn't been a bad year for.
Ir the Democrats in Congress dare to
pass Wilson tariff bill as it
stands, they will make their party de-
tested by seven-tenths of the people of
the United States, sonnd its
knell as a national organization,
the now
and death
Taere is litte doubt about the Wil
son tariff bill resulting in the death of
the Democratic
its present
party, if it be passed in
The country
very well stand that, bat it is the killing
of others, by slow starvation, that is oh-
jected to.
shape. could
RuePRESENTATIVE Springer, of Tilinois,
must be ambitious of becoming known
as the Congress. Al
though he has been snubbed and sat up-
on in almost every conceivable wav hy
meekest man in
the administration, he has rushed into
print with a defense of the Hawaiian
policy.
MRr Crevernaxp succeeded in persuad
ing Van Alen to fielp him try to hlot out
one ugly spot by declining his highly
vet
help
ont of a worse predicament by resigning
for the
paid for honor, but he has not per
snaded Secretary Gresham to him
and shonldering responsibility
Hawaiian mess
Taw free trader cannot convinee the
man whose wages have heen reduced or
himself laid off, because of the
the effects of free trade, that free
will bring the country great blessings in
fear of
trade
the future. And even if he could, future
blessings, althoueh pleasant to anticipate,
would not pay the landlord and the gro-
cer for present shelter and food.
defeat the obnoxions Wilson tariff hill,
there is nothing to be gained by their
adopting dilatory tactics
vote upon it. If the Democrats
upon cramming it down the throat of the
country in the
against it, it had just as well be done in
February or March as in July or August.
to prevent a
insist
spite of protests made
A UnNiteEp Press dispatch states that
Ca holies are circulating petitions in va-
rious localities in which the state is asked
for a portion of its school funds to help
the parochial schools of the
Catholic church. The petitions state
that Catholics ave practically debarred
from receiving any benefit from the mon-
ey they pay as school tax, owing to the
fact that most of them send their chil-
dren to parochial ‘gehools, which thev
must keep up at their own expense, aud
where their children receive a religious
as well as a secular educaticn. Trae
STAR believes that all honorable means
should be used to defeat the object of
maintain
these petitions. We helieve that the
public schools are the safeguard of the
Republic and that the home sand the
church are the proper places to teach ve-
ligion. Let the scliools be for secular
education onlv. We believe that sectu-
rianism has no just right to be taught
therein, and we also believe that church
and state should forever be kept separate.
The state ins no more right to divide its
school funds with the Catholic church
than with the Methodist church or
other church. Th the place
for secular education; the home and the
It wonld be danger-
any
thool is
church for religion,
ous for any one church, no matter what
denomination, to have a pull on the gov:
[Tistory of the rice and fall of
this Nu
merous. denominations are a bhiessing to
our land, but no one church should be al-
lowed to get the rovernment even
ernment.
nations confirms statement.
parte
in its clutches. Church and state musi be
kept separate in order that we mav con-
tinue to have civil and religious liberty |
Keep up its own sectarian
The Catho
lics have a right to their own opinions,
and we have no for them, but
we have a right to our opinions as well
as they have to theirs. It's the majority
for it, that's all, and we all have a
let every sect
schools ordo without them.
abuse
right
to try to make ouv side the majority side
and get as many to think as we do as we
can so persuade by honorable means.
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