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ADORN YOUR SLEEPING ROOM
with one of our beautiful Bed-rcom Suits.
The one shown above consists of a large
Dresser with bevel plate Mirror,
carved Bed, 6 feet high,
nicely
and large Wash-
stand, all nicely finished in antique, at
$16.50.
Our nice new stock of
CW urniture axon Bedding
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is fast arriving, and everything is fresh from the factory.
J: No OLD STYLES or-Shopworn goods shown Tere.
: J ohnson & MeCullon,
SALISBURY, PA.
(et It At Jellery’s!
When in need of anything in the line
of Pure
Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's
Fresh Bread,
C ALL AT om.
Books, Stationery,
Notions, “ete.
- THE LEADING GROCERY.
Space is too limited to enumerate. all my bargains here,
Call and be convinced that I sell the best of gonds at the
lowest living prices.
My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years,
for which I heartily thank the good people of Salisbury
and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your
Respectfully,
JERFRERY,
future patronage.
J.. 'T.
— Opposite Posto ltico — mn
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Cash Prices
Asrbuckle’s Coffee, per 1b.,
¢ 18 ibs. Granulated Sugar,
Rice,
White Hominy,
Navy Beans,
ima Bans,
Cakes Coke Soap,
Water Lilly Seap,
10
$1.00
2H
OF
25
25
25
25
25
Tall!
Jest 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
Ovyercoats-and all lines of c¢loth-
ing.
Bargains in Ladies’
$1.00 and $1.25.
Shoes at
FID¥ TTT YY 3) ~G——
Fie, ASTI, we defy:
ill competition and guarantee to give
you substantial value for your money.
: Respectfully,
BARCHUS & LIVIENGOOD,
SALISBURY; PA.
dugar-Making Utensils!
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Supply your wants in this line where you
the least money.
an get the goods for
i KGelrs, Buckels, pauls, Sugar Ds, Sy ns, EX.
"We also carry at all times a large line of up- ‘to-date
=HARDWARE,
Stoves, Tinware, llarness, Collars, Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc., Etc.
Our motto is, “LARGE SALES and SMALL MA RGINS.”
C. R. Haselbarth & Son, Salisbury, Penna.
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“AXIE” YODER.
A True Story of the Life of the Old
Axe-Maker of Elk Lick Township.
3 DY W. H. WELFLEY.
(Continued from last week.)
Mr. Joder has left it as a matter of
record that Aaron Schrock was the
most obedient and faithful apprentice
he ever had; and he also became the
best workman. The late Michael
Koontz, who lived several miles south
of Somerset, was his next apprentice.
Other apprentices seem to have been:
David T'rankhauser, John Swartzen-
druber, Samuel Judy, Gabriel Schrock.
Leonard Berkey, John Yowler, Joseph
Weimer, George Lichty, Benjamin J.
Joder, (his son), Thomas Moore and
George Coleman. As soon as an ap-
= | prentice or journeyman could really
make and shape an axe he was allowed
a stamp of his own, and was permitted
to stamp his name under that'of J. J.
Joder.
After Michael Koontz became free
he located a shop about three miles
south of Somerset, on the Centerville
road. Joder sent the iron, steel, borax,
etc., to him, his son. Benjamin usually
doing the hauling. Koontz then work-
ed and shaped the material into axes;
then they were hauled back to Mechan-
icsburg to Mr. Joder’s shop where he
tempered them himself. Others of the
journeymen may have done the same.
We give here astatement of the num-
ber of axes made by Joseph J. Joder
himself as well as those made by the
apprentices and journey men, but which
received the final tempering and hard-
ening at his hands:
No. mace by Joseph J. Joder,
Michael Koontz,
David Frankhauser,
John Swartzendruber,
Samuel Judy,
Gabriel Schrock,
Leonard Berkey,
John Yowler,
Joseph Weimer,
George Lichty,
B.J.Joder,
Thomas Moore,
George Coleman,
4,550
2,200
360
200
700
900
1,142
25
436
418
29
1,195
Total - - - - 12,355
‘Besides these there were hundreds of
chisels, drawing knives, ete., made here
also.
These figures are from his books as
he kept them, and came down to 1857,
when he quit work. =
We believe the last of his apprentices
were Jerome Bowman and Jer&7JT Liv-
engood ; the latter now resides at Sal,
isbury. Bowman went to the war and
lost hig good right arm in the service,
and could no longer work at the trade,
Mr. Livengood became a worthy suc-
cessor to the great axe-maker, and we
venture to say that, as a maker of steel
and edge tools, he does not have his
equal in Somerset county.
About the year 1824 he bought a
small tract of land from William Mil-
ler, which then was in Elk Lick town-
ship. Here he built himself a house,
shop and small barn.
Later he laid this land off into town
lots, filing the plot in the Recorder’s
oflice nt Somerset. He gave his new
town the name of Mechanisburg, though
when a postofficc was established it
not keep this name, but took
the name of Summit Mills. It was for
a long time also called “Yotter Sthed-
dle” by the German-speaking portion
of the people.
In 1844 Mr. Joder sold is interests at
Mechanicsburg and moved to a small
tract of land in Elk Lick township,
which he had bought from Daniel
Hershberger, and’ which was situated
between the Iershberger and Samuel
Compton farms. Ilere he established
his shop and continued the making of
axes, ete., as long as his eye-sight per-
mitted him to do so, which was up to
the year 1858.
In addition to his axe-making he also
paid some attention to repairing clocks
and watches. Indeed there were few
things in the metal line he could not
make. Doctors in that community in
those days were but few, and for a long
time he kept for sale a stock of family
medicines. No one who ever knew him
well will deny that he was not of an
inquiring turn of mind and given to in-
vestigation and he also had some tal-
ent for invention. The much talked of
nail-making machine was not an inven-
tion of his. His invéntion was a. de-
vice for feeding a nail-making machine,
The machines then in ase did not per-
mit the making of a cheap nail. His
invention, attached to a nail-making
machine, as a self-feeder, enabled one
man or boy to do the work of a dozen
men or boys in looking after a machine
or in feeding it.
It goes without saying that it was a
usefnl invention. It is also certain that
he was unjustly robbed of his inven-
200.
This is said to have come about in
this way: While he was a man of in-
telligence he was of a confiding nature.
He judged other men somewhat by
himself, and he thought other men
were honest, as he himself certainly
was.
It would seem that he lacked the
means at. that time of patenting the
machine and getting it into use. The
writer does not know how expensive
the obtaining of a patent was in those
days nor whether it was at that time
possible as now to protect an invention
for -a reasonable time by filing a caveat
at a trifling expense. At any rate he
did exhibit his machine first among his
neighbors in the hope that some one
would join him in securing the patent
and getting the invention into use, but
none of these would make the venture.
After some correspondence with a firm
of patent lawyers he took bis model to
Pittsburg, where he showed it to seyeral
men who were in the nail-making bus-
ness, but failed to enlist their aid.
Yet there can be but little doubt but
that these men saw the merit of the in-
vention, and that some one of their
number took the good points of his
model and forestalled him in the pro-
curing of that patent.
The old man and his oldest son both
have always claimed that there was
rascality practiced somewhere in the
matter.
It is not true that he ever made a
search for any hidderi treasure, squan-
dering a fortune therein, as many peo-
ple believe. It is true that he did make
a seareh for minerals and metals that
he and others supposed might exist in
that part of Somerset county.
With regard to the search made in
this direction alorg Pine ran, in Green~-
ville township. the following we be-
lieve is a true account, because:itiis de-
rived from one yet living, who took
some part in the work, which was done
in 1836.
Something in the nature.of a compa-
ny had been formed. Altogether $225.00
had been raised in this way. Three of
the Bluebaughs, each had a share; a
Mr. Ilare, of Hopwood, Fayétte coun-
ty, bad two shares; Frederick Beal-
man-and John McDonald had each a
share; Joder himself had three shares;
several other persons had each a share.
The primary object ,of the search:
along the mountain was for iron ore,
which was found, but not in
quantity as would justify
There were a number of? excavations |
made along the run and mountain,
There was one made in the locality |
described in this new legend of the
argonauts, but it was not made for the |
purpose of finding any hidden treasure 4
“Die Erd Spiegel” of Moll Dell |
chest.
cut nofigure. This partiaular excava-
tion was made to a depth of perhaps
eight or ten feet, and was on low ground !
and but a short distance ‘from the run,
the seepage of whose waters through!
the intervening earth and rock strata |
could not be kept out of the pit, and it
had to be abandoned. It is true that
watch was kept for any other metal or
mineral that the rocks
carefully test the several rocks en-
countered, and did find
character.
The search was then abandoned. It
was found that the sum of $195.00 had | soy ot once whether she will pay n=]
expended. leaving a balance of |
been
$30.00, which was returned to the share-
holders. The books and papers relat-
ing to the transaction are still in ex-
istence, and can be shown. This is the
foundation for a legend that has been
floating through Elk Lick township for |
fifty or more years, and in which what |
was a fortune for fhose days should
have been wasted ;
even more than loeal eirculation.
How so
sor Leslie, associated with
who was
Professor Rodgers in the first geological |
survey of Pennsylvania, and was at the |
head of the second geological survey, |
could have been imposed upon as he
certainly was, and made to believe in
the truth of these absurd stories, in
which there not a word of truth,
passes our comprehension. Yet such
is the fact
In one of his lectures on “Man's Ori-
gin and Destiny” he says: “I have seen
is
‘| and returned to Somerset connty,
such !
working it. |
might carry, |
other than iron, and that Mr. Joder did |
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some time
traces of silver, but not of a paying |
and 1t has obtained |
intelligent a man as Profes- |
laughing, talking, pounding, picking
beneath their feet, removing the treas-
ure downward out of reach; for, of
course, they never found it.”
Without doubt Professor Leslie saw
the shafts; but the circumstances un-
township, some in search of coal, oth-
ers for limestone, and here and. there
others for iron ore;
the labor bestowed on them, and others
making no return whatever.
the earth, whether they are gold, silver,
copper, lead or iron, coal or limestone,
were ever laid bare, except, perhaps in
a few isolated cases, when the discoy- |
ery was the result of an accident; and |
it is the height of injustice to hand
down the names of those who have
failed, and their name is legion, as
knaves or fools.
In 1859 Mr. Joder removed to Holmes
eounty, Ohio, where, we believe, he had |
ionists are quite numerous. He re-
mained there only a couple of Vears,
be-
coming a resident of Gonemaugh town-
enty-four years and four months.
His remains were interred
one son, Benjamin J. Joder, Esq., now
for many years before going west, was
Greenville township,
Levi’ J. Joder, of Meyersdale,
Reuben J. Joder, at one
known school teacher of Somerset
county, are sons of the second wife.
Oh, we don’t want to fight!
But, by Jingo, if we must,
We will make haughty Spain
Lick the dustiest of dust.
For the eagle will scream
In the lustiest of tones,
And make himsclf a meal
of the Spaniard’s marrow hones.
— Pittsburg Times.
Tue Scull sheets make a ve ado over
the fact that Bedford: county has no
indebtedness;
{can not be said of Somerset county,
they cite
prove that our County Commissioners
are poor financiers. ' The Commission-
| ers are all right, however. The county
rule made it so; for years these leeches
had such a hold on county patronage,
charging the most outrageous prices
| for their services, that it isreally a won-
| der that the county is able to exist.
| Things will soon be in better shape,
| however, as the Scull-secker crowd is
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|-doomed to be entirely relegated to the |
| rear. Their sin has found them out,
and now they are setting up the “stop
| thief” ery in order to cover up their
own tracks.
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| Tue President’s cabinet is discussing
war and it is rumored that Spain must
The “Dons”
| demnity. will not be per-
mitted to play for time with this
gov-
l erfhiment, and if Spain refuses to settle,
Congress will declare war. The Board
| of Inquiry, which is investigating the
Maine disaster, is expected to make a
| full report, this week, and it is believed
that the that the
Maine was destroyed by Spanish con-
report will show
spirators, some of whom are said to be
i known. In tlie meantime “Uncle Sam”
is making active preparations for war.
[Forts and garrisons are being strength-
| ened, ammunition is being manufaetur-
ed on adarge scale, recruits are being
| added to the army and navy, vessels
are sailing about under sealed orders
and the smell of gun-powder seems to
be in the air. Let the dogs of war be
turned loose if the occasion demands
shaftssunk in the glades of Somerset |
county, Pennsylvania, under the dicta- |
tion of an old scamp who would lay in
his hunting-cap a small looking-glass |
which had cabalistic characters on the |
back of-it, and was called an “erd spie-
gel;” and then, holding his own face |
over it, he would describe the depth to
an inch of all the mineral wonders that
he saw beneath the surface. So strong-
ly did the imagination of this fetish act
upon his workmen —simple old German
immigrants from the motherland of
superstition as they were—that they
affirmed with all their faith that when
at work at the bottom of the shaft they
it, for Spain ought to be wiped off the
| map to say the least.
“Trmie” Scunn is a great farmer as
| well as a great auditor.
| printed a letter signed “Farmer,” in
which a sneaking, cowardly attack was
made upon Commissioner George Kim- |
mel. Bhat isn’t the first farmer letter
written in the Herald office by “Tim-
field would state it. If the said letter
was really written by a tiller of the
!
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mie” Scull & self, as the late Wm.
could disiiveily hear invisible agents
der which they were sunk are just as |
we haverelated them, and just as scores |
of others have been sunk in Elk Lick |
some rewarding
And it is |
only by these toilsome and expensive |
searches that any of the treasures of |
some relatives, and where his co-relig- |g
ship, where he.died in the month of |
April, 1863, at the advanced age of sev- |
in the |
Kauffman graveyard. By his first mar- |
riage there were several daughters and |
residing at Waterloo, Towa, but who,
a leading and well-known citizen of |
and |
time a well- |
and because the same ;
that as strong evidence to
is in debt simply because Scull ring |
Last week he |
En- | i
soil, why didn’t he have his real name
published with the same, to show that
he was acting in good faith and ‘wasn’t
doing something he was ashamed of?
{ Oh no, “Timmie,” you can’t fool the
for they '
know your weakness for resorting to
people anymore that way,
“ways that are dark and tricks that are
| vain.” You are a farmer, to be sure,
| but your occupation is farming the
farmers and not the soil. But go
ahead, for you can’t hurt sturdy, hon-
l est old George Kimmel. Tle has a repu-
| tation for honor that will withstand all
the hyena-like attacks you can make
| upon that reputation. Some of Salis-
| bury’s oldest and best citizens have
| knowh Geo. F. Kimmel nearly all his
| | life, and all of them speak of him as a
| man of rugged honesty and upright,
manly principles. Can anyone truth-
| fully say that much for you? Canthey
{ say that much for anyone of your whole
gang, from’ the chief magnate of the
| Phil
| the smallest toad of the Scull mud-
| puddle? “Nit”
Sheridan Oil Company down to
Looks Like War,
Karl Decker, special correspondent to
the Pittsburg Sunday Post, says he has
reliable information from two sources
that the U. 8
{ blown up by a torpedo placed under it
by. a Spanish diver emplcyed by three
war ship, Maine, was
Spanish merchants, for a consideration
| of $10,000, part of which has been paid.
At Washington the situation is said to
be most’ threatening. Indemnity finds
‘no favagr.
| at his post instead of taking a vacation.
Secretary Long will remain
Tarred With the Same Stick.
By an overwhelming the
Legislature has censured
majority
| New York
1 that state’s recreant Senator, Murphy,
i for voting for the Teller resolution.
| This will not induce Murphy to resign,
him that the rotten
New York
in 1898 as it was in 1896, and incident-
{ but it will show
money cause is as weak in
ally it will tell him that he is serving
his last term in elective oflice.—Somer-
set Herald.
The Iferald might also have added
i that Senator Quay assisted the Free
Silver Domocracy, by voting for their
the Senate of the United
ago. It is
Quay, of our
measures in
weeks
that
state, and Murphy, of New York, are
the stick ; but of
course “Timmie” Scull dare not poke
{any fun at big Boss Quay, for thatwould
| keep too much Quay campaign boodle
States, only a few
therefore evident
tarred with same
out of “Timmie’s” hands. ‘“Timmie”
voted for Quay in the St. Louis conven-
tion, when he well knew that nine-
tenths of the Republicans of Somerset
county detested Quay and favored Me-
But wh:
care for
Kinley’s nomination. does
I Quay’s little Somerset hosed
i the will of the people whic there is big
in sight” ?
As to Titles.
Somerset Standard.
It is la izhinble how the title “Gener-
al” throws ihe old Scullpaper into hys-
teries.. if may be because the title is
higher than “Colonel.”
“Col.” is an abbreviation
nel.” “Col.” also stands for **Collector”
of Internal Retenue. How did the
sénior editor of the Ring organ get his
military title? Was it when raking in
the $300 commutation money from
drafted men at Chambersburg daring
‘the war? or was it while wearing the
seat-out-of his breeches signing inter-
nal revenue stamps for twenty years as
collector of this district at a salary of
$4,000 a year?
“President,” perhaps, would be a
move suitable and appropriate title for
him, as the citizens of Somerset have
not forgotten when he was “President”
of the famous “Phil. Sheridan Oil Com-
pany,” and how a number of our farm-
ers were “taken in” by this “fake or-
ganization” and relieved of their hard-
eted money. ¥
This great “Phil. Sheridan Oil Com-
pany/’ of which Mr. Scull was presi-
ident, was such a good thing (there was
to be “millions in it”) that none but
‘Republicans were allowed to take stock.
{ What a lucky escape for the Democrats!
{ It is not surprising that the Scullpaper
| is haunted by the word “fake.”
Will the heirs of the “Colonel” please
air themselves in an explanation of
| when and how that title was acquired?
boodl ’
of” *“Colo-