a "ALL KINDS OF VOLUME 1V. Get It At Jeffery’s! When in need of anything in the line of Pure Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, etc. - CALL AT comme THE LEADING GROCERY. Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, Call and be convinced that I sell the Dest of gonds at the lowest living prices. My business has grown Sondatatly in the past few years, for which T heartily thank the good people of Salisbury and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your future patronage. Respectfully, J.T. JEFFERY, Opposite Postoftice. - - - - Cash Prices Tall! 10 $1.00 ox «Ltd Grrant Arbuckle’s Coffee, per lb., 18 lbs. Granulated Sugar 4 Rice, 15 “ White Hominy, 10 “ Navy Beans, Best Calico, per yard, .05 Lancaster Ginghams, per yd, .05 Men’s Suits from $4.00 up. Childrens Suits from .75 up. Special Bed-rock cash prices on Overcoats and all lines of cloth- 6’ .25 Jt > it « 8 Lima Bans, 7 Cakes Coke. Soap, 6 Water Lilly Soap, [NE ———— ing. Bargains in Ladies’ $1.00 and $1.25. ao | Shoes at! IO 1S BO 1D SS A vv For the (!_ A SH, we defy all competitions and guarantee to give you substantial value for your money. Respectfully, BARCHUS & LIVIENGOOD, SALISBURY, ugar-Making Utensils! Supply your wants in this line where you can get the goods for PA. the least money. oll Heglers, Buckels, o SU Pans, Syrup Gas, EL. We also carry at all times a ne line of up-to-date Stoves, rie Harness, Collars, Paiits Oils, iy Etc. Our motto is, “LARGE SALES and SMALL MARGINS.” C. R. Haselbarth & Son, Salisbury, Penna. ain Flour and Feed! Gr 8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas- ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the wants of our customers in STAPLE GROCERIES Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Etc. In short anything to feed man or beast. Furthermore, we are JOBBERS OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- load lots. We are also Headquarters For Mapie Sweets. We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Eggs. what advantages we offer. S. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa. bl. GRADE, BIGYCLEN. cae 1 898 Models. —am A few more local agents wanted for the Celebrated, Fast-run- ning Green ANDRAE BICYCLES. Agents alres dy established at Johnstown, Uniontown, Connellsville, West New- ton and all other leading cities. - . . ° | i i : | A few more good agents wanted. Just ask any Andrae rider. Catalogues mailed to anybody on application. Write to the - JUSTICE CYCLE CO. Ltd. Gen. Agts., 71a PENN AVE. & 715 LIBERTY ST... Come and see { investigation. PITTSBURG, PA. SALISBURY, ELK LIC K POSTOF F ICE, DONT BE DECEIVED. Porrricarn ING Yacapoxns Wio Are Try- ] 10 PLUNGE THE County DEEPER INTO DEBT, BECAUSE THE COMMISSION=- ERS REFUSE To Give Trey tine Coun- TY. PRINTING AT ILLEGAL AND UNJUST Rares—SoyMe PoINTERS THAT OUGHT To OpeN THE Eves oF ALL Ricur- Mixpip PEoPLE. Lucifer Smith, who presides over the Meyersdale Scullsheet, last week tried to make it appear that the County Com- missioners’ annual statement publish- ed in THE Stag, Somerset Standard and Somerset Democrat is a bogus state- ment, and he is now going to find out how the County (Commissioners can suppress the publication of the County Auditors’ report. Bless your soul, old man, the County Auditors have no re- port to publish. The Commissioners ave required, by law, to publish their own statement of receipts and expendi- tures annually. The Auditors’ report does not require publication, and no doubt the Auditors themselves would be glad to have it suppressed, this year. since their work shows up to such bad advantage. The Conrmissioners can not prevent any newspaper from pub- lishing the Auditors’ report. But Bro. Smith is such an inveterate investigator that we would like to see him push this investigation. He is always entertain- ing in the throes of an investigation. Ibis imagination scintillates like forked [lightning in the gloom of a great public Before he became the | journalistic Lucifer of Somerset county { politics he-was the champion investiga- tor of investigators. By all means, Bro. Smith, push the investigation; and, in- cidentally, investigate and see whether the -bunco Auditors haven’t pas§ed you a dish of “dead horse?” 2 TIE POOR HOUSE ACCOUNTS. IHas the Poor House settlement been examined? If not, why not? Itwould be a miracle, indeed, if that account should be found to be corret. The same official nincompoops who settled the county accounts made the Poor House settlement. It ought tobe some one’s duty to look into the Poor House account. GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? The question that is agitating the minds of the people of Somerset county is whether the errors of :the County Auditors were innocent miscalculations or whether they were the ground work for a big steal. Such things have hap- pened in Somerset county before, when the Auditors’ reports passed without challenge. Tue Star prefers to believe the er- rors to be the greatest exhibition of stupidity in the history of Somerset county officialdom. There is only one phase of this re- markable piece of “auditing” that casts suspicion upon the work of the Audi- tors. That is the “stop thief,” ery the Auditors have raised after the County Commissioners. who habitually accuses his fellow-m<en needs watching himself. But even this can be explained when it is understood how hard up the Scull-secker fellows are for compaign rot of some descrip- tion. The old Scull “hog-wash” will no longer answer for campaign purposes. The people have been fooled so often by their “Timmy-Freddy” lies that they refuse to be humbugged any longer. Hence the necessity for a new issue. But the Auditors’ work has recoiled upon them’ with ten-fold momentum. They digged a deep ditch for the Com- missioners and lo! they fell into it themselves ; and the archangel’s trump- et will never resurrect the political re- mains of Auditors Bowman and Rhoads. Jerry Rhoads passes for a pretty “good citizen, but the itch for office bas got- ten away with his judgment, and the “Barker Liniment” gang has made an- instrument of their own liking of poor old Jerry. Big Ben. Bowman has had better luck. The Sculls got-him the Ber- lin postoffice. He resigned the postof- fice and had his wife.appointed postmis- tress under a mistaken impression that his services were indispensable to the public in the capacity of County Audi- tor. Bowman is also a tool, but works the Scull gang for more office than Jerry can. He is smart enough to know, too, that if hedoesn’t get in his double work now the Scull erib will soon be empty forever. Peter Sipe is a fine old man, retired from a long business life of suc- eessful merchandising. Bowman can’t fool him again. ABILITY DISCOUNTED. The only member of the board of County Auditors who could do the work necessary fo make a complete and accurate report is County Auditor Peter Sipe ; but he was unceremoniously push- ed to the rear by that officious Audi- tor, “Benjy” Bowman, who gave Mr. Sipe to understand that the work of auditing was too complicated and oner- As a rule the fellow’ pA, FEBRUARY 17, 1898. ous for a new member. Mr. Sipe has expressed himself as being much dis- gusted at Bowman’s proceedures. The work could have been done in half the time if Auditor Bowman had not spent so much of his time in Fred. Bieseck- er’s office getting “pointers.” Bieseck- er and Bowman combined could hardly audit a township supervisor’s account. on! WHERE was “Tra?” Next time Auditors Bowman and Rhoads get down to audit the county’s accounts with their blunderbuses they should call in “Tim Scull, the little boss of the Scull faction. “Timmie” is an auditor with a big A. He has done more auditing than any other man in Somerset county since Judge Longe- necker has sat on the bench. Bieseck- er is a close second, but experience has not improved him. “Timmie” is (he man to wind up the Bovman-Rhoads auditing syndicate with a big “Barker Liniment” flourish. . AN HONEST, CAPABLE CLERK. Much credit is due to the able, con- scientious clerk of the County Commis- sioners, Mr. John G. Emert, in straight- ening out the crooked work of the Coun- ty Auditors. The report of the County Auditors is the work of seven men, who labored and sweated over that piece of monumental botechwork twenty-eight days. Clerk Emert, single-handed and alone, went over the same ground in his work was accurately done. Mr. Emert is the right man in the right place. Some day the people will call him up higher. SHOWS UGLY WORK. One Way the Ringsters Planned to Work a Scheme. Somerset Standard. The following petition has been pre- pared by the gentleman whose signa- ture it bears, and will be presented to the Court at the proper time: To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County. The petition of Peter Sipe respéctful- ly represents that he is one of the coun- : ty auditors and that the Board of Au- | ditors met at the Court House on the | 3d January, A. D. 1898, to audit, settle | and adjust the accounts of the county officers and were in session twenty- eight days and finished their work on | Friday, the 6th day of February, A. D. | 1898. He further represents that there was a difference of opinion between the members of the board as to the matters that were to be surcharged to the Com- missioners of Somerset county, and your petitioner alleges that he did not agree to surcharge the. County Com- missioners on order No. 6 for, $142.50 (for interest on borrowed money) and order No. 359, calling for $300 fér me- tallic files in the Prothonotury’s office, but did agree that they should be sur- charged on order 522 for $59.69 interest on order. : He further represents that A.J. Hile- man, clerk to the board, agreed to pre- "pare the report showing that your pe- titioner disagreed as to the above items and agreed to the surcharge of $59.59. | He further represents that B. J. Bow- man, one of the auditors, prior to the completion of the audit, read a paper prepared by himself, or some one else, commenting on the action of the Coun- ty Commissioners and censuring them for certain matters, and your petition- er avers that he refused to agree to the same, or that it should be attached to the report, and he further says that the report was read to the Board by the clerk, that it did not contain the matter which had been read by B. J Bowman. He further represents that before the report was signed by the Auditors the clerk was asked whether it was the same as had been previously read by him to the Board and he replied that it was, with the exception of an item re- lating to unseated lands, whereupon your petitioner, having confidénce in the clerk, signed the report. Ie further represents that he has discovered since singning the same, that it contains several matters to which he did not give his consent, as follows, to- wit : ’ “ 1st, Surcharging the County Com- missioners with orders Nos. 6 and 359 as above set forth. 2nd, In not preparing the report so as to show that your petitioner only agreed to surcharge the Commissioners with $59.59, as above set forth. 3rd, In that part of ‘the report com- mencing with the words “Before con- cluding our report we deem it our du- ty” &c., and endipg with the words, “We also certify and found that the! sum of $55, received through County Commissioners for the state of Penn- sylvania for the use of the county of Somerset has not been turned into the county treasury.’ bills in equity, anyhow, in connection He therefore prays that a rule be granted on the other Auditors and the clerk to show cause why the report should not be amended so as to con- form_the facts herein set forth, or that his name be stricken from said report. PererR SieE, (An affidavit of truth is appended.) Brilliant Auditing. As a sample of the ability of the aud- itors who undertake to criticise the method of book-keeping in the Com- missioners’ office, we refer tha public to a single item in the Auditors’ report filed in the Prothonotary’s office. It reads: “Balance due Wm. Winters, Esq.,County Treasurer, $9,047.56,” when in fact that amount is due the county from the treasurer. Think of it! An error of $18,095.12 in a single item by men who assume to be crities! Isnt it brilliant? Doesn’t it seem that a man who was appointed postmaster, then withdrawn and his wife appointed in order that he might delve into the ac- counts of the county, ought to do bet- ter than this?—Somerset Standard. Well, we don’t know about his doing better. Tue StAr thinks Auditor Bow- man did exceedingly well as far as.he went, but he did not go far enough. Such a man isn’t fit for postmaster, and in resigning the office and having his wife appointed he did well. The only | | pity is‘that he didn’t have another wife five days, and when he finished the job | to act as auditor for him, for any old woman would be more capable of fill- ing the office. We think Bowman did exceedingly well for a man of his men- tal calibre. He has shown what greed some men have for office, and he has also shown that in him the skunk ele- | anybody doubt that the.cage ment of the human family is exceed- | ingly well represented. Therefore, we | repeat it, he has done as well as could | have been expected. ! | Tne Everett Republican is booming | Ex-Prothonotary R. C. Haderman as | the choice of the Republicans-of Bed- ford county for the Republican Con- gressional nomination this Year. Tue Johnstown Tribune seems to have about the same idea of the burn- ing of the Pennsylvania Capitol build- ing as that held by Dr. Swallow. Yes, and “there are others,” thousands of them, Axorner World’s Fair is to be held. This time Greater New York will take off the event. A bill providing for the expenses has been passed by the New York legislature. The time set is in the year 1901. Tie three leading newspapers of Nash ville, Tenn., employ women reporters. Miss Walker represents the Sun, Mrs. Duncan the American, and Miss Potter- field the Banner. All are able to do credit to their calling. The Philadelphia Times publishes the names and portraits of a lot of men who would be willing to accept the Re- publican nomination for Governor of | Pennsylvania. Congressman Hicks is included in the number. DruvriNag the Crimean Wa ar more than | one-half (63.5 per cent.) of the amputa- tions that were performed resulted in death. In the American Civil War the mortality from amputation was still 48.1 per cent. but in 1890 the statistics of amputation showed that the mortality had been reduced to 8.9 per cent. The value of antiseptic surgery is thus shown. Doxs anybody recall an embezzler of any large amount of money who was permitted to serve out the term of im- prisonment prescribed by law for the offense? And yet does any one know of a lower, meaner.form of stealingthan that in which the thief not only takes what’ does not belong to him, but be- trays a trust, and not from necessity, as he is generally a man of comfortable income aside from his pilferings? Mcre- land,- Pittsburg’s City Attorney, is the latest addition to the list of such.— Johnstown Tribune. Tue spread of Mormonism in Fulton county, Pa., and Washington county, Md., is causing great alarm among the inhabitants of those two counties. Ministers of other denominations are doing all they can against the Mormon missionaries, but in spite of all the op- position, the Mormon faith is rapidly spreading. In Bucks Valley, I'ulton county, the converts to Mormonism largely exceed one hundred, says the Everett Republican, and adds that most of them belong to families of’ good finaneial standing. The missionaries all resemble each ether, dress plainly and have services at private houses. War's the use in Gall this squabbling and getting out injunctions and filing | thinks otherwise. i to blame for his recall. | necessity for him to write a letter. with the new State Cratial that is to be —perhaps. Suppose the Building CCom- mission should make the worst job pos- sible under the circumstances. Does would stlll be too good for the animals? Building marble walls around an ag- gregation such as the people have been sending to Harrisburg in late years to make their laws is not only extrava- gant, but ludicrous. - Even artistic dec- orations at a dollar a square foot won’t make brains, gumption, sand or hon- esty.—Johnstown Tribune. CONGRESS recently pasted = an appro- priation bill which should never have been recognized by that body, much less passed. The bill “appropriates $288,000 to the Southern Methodist church, to reimburse it for the loss of its publishing house, which was taken possession of and despoiled by Union soldiers during the Rebellion. “he reason why this appropriation should not be made is simply this: The Meth- odist- church became divided against itself on account of the slavery ques- tion, the Southern wing cutting entire- ly loose from the Northern wing and establishing a publishing house of its own at Nashville, Tennessee. This publishing house at once began to | print and circulate secession tracts cal- culated'to stimulate the Southern cause, and this was kept up until Union troops seized the house and put a stop, to the business of encouraging treason and secession. Under the circumstances it is to hoped that this bill will be knock- ed out in the Semate. Following is a sample of the tracts printed and sent out by the aforesaid publishing house. ead it, and then, as a loyal citizen of the United States, judge for yourself { whether this Southern’ concern ought | to be rewarded for its treason. THE SOUTHERN MOTHER'S CHARGE. I love you as my life, My dear, beloved son, Your country calls—go forth and fight, Till freedom’s cause is won. It may be that you full in death, Contending for your home, Yet your aged mother will not be: Forsaken, though alone. A thousand generous hearts there are Throughout thesamnny land, Whose ample fortune will be spent With an unsparing hand. Now go, my son, a mother’s prayers Will ever follow thee, And in the thickest of the fight, Strike home for liberty. On every hill, in every glen, We'll ight till we are free— We'll fight till-every limpid brook Runs crimson to the sea. No truce we know till every foe Shall leave our hallowed sod, And we regain the heaven-born boon— Freedom to worship God. Critiolsing the President. Baltimore Sun. Without undertaking to underesti- mate the magnitude of Minister de Lome’s offense, it-is probable that those who will most vigorously denounce his allusion to the President have them- selves been guilty of applying phrases equally as insulting to Mr. McKinley or to his distinguished predecessor. When Mr. Cleveland was the chief executive of the Nation he was denounced in Cor - gress and by the opposition press in terms compared with which the phrases attributed to the Spanish minister are mild and inoffensive. Since Mr. Mlc- Kinley has been in the White Fouse he has had a similar experience. Searce- ly a day passes in'which the advocates of the recognition of the Cuban insur- gents do not attack him in the language \_ of bitter denunciation, while those who are at odds with him on the finaciak | issue employ the vocabulary of abuse on every possible occasion. For the benefit of those who do not understand our customs and methods. it ought to be stated that we reserve to ourselves ex- | clusively the right to abuse our public | ofiicials, i right of denunciation, which we claim | and use unstintedly, is not transferable, from President down. The and woe be unto the diplemat who sulting the President is a national pre- rogative which we do not share with the representatives of the inferior civ- ilization of Europe. If Minister de Lome had not mastered this funda- mental principle of true.and unadul- terated Americanism he has not used his powers of observation as wisely as he should, and will have ouly himself There was no He could have found more vigerows phrases and an unlimited supply of them in almost any copy of the “Congressional Reeord” published since March 4 last. and he could have kept Senor Canalejas and the Sagasta ministry busy for months finding out an American au- thority how bad a man exen so honer- able and conscientious a President as The privilege of in- | > C Mr. McKinley can be represented to be — by his political opponents. x
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