TH URSDAY, A PRIL, 7 1898. "WAR WITH SPAIN! | Startling. News Indeed. But let us talk to you about our war against high prices. Just see What “Unele Samuel's” Cash Will Do! Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents. 18 lbs. Granulated Sugar, 29¢. 25¢. 25¢. 20¢. 20c¢. 29¢. 25¢. 4 lbs. Best Rice, 10 Ibs. Navy Beans, 7 Ibs. Lima Beans, 15 1bs. White Hominy, 7 cakes Coke Soap, 6° cakes Waterlily Soap, J lbs Good Raisins, Lancaster Ginghams, Good Cashmeres Good Calico, Best Calico, ~gET—e Us from 12; Very best Cotton Bats, 1.00. per yard. cts. up. 10c. IC. 4 cents per yard. J cents per Good 7-c¢t. Muslin reduced to 5 cts. SY RICCO HII HD coy yard. A fine line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to $1.00. Also a fine line of Men's Dress Shirts, direct from the manufacturers, from 39 cents up. nishing Goods. up. Overalls, ete., at prices away down. Men's Suits from $4 up. All the latest novelties in Neckwear and Gents Fur- Children’s Suits from 75 cts. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up. Men's Working Panis, Coats, GREAT BARGAINS IN SHORES? We carry an immense line of Shoes and buy direct from the celebrated manufacturers—Rice & Hutchins, We war We are sel Walker and Douglusstherhy saving fully 25 per cent. of jobbers’ prices. part. We are. also agents for the famceus Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. rifice to make room for our immense spring and summer stock. REMEMBE CES. Call early and save money. . 2, THESE ant these shoes in every ling Shoes at a sac- ARE CASH PRI- Barchus & Livengood, Salisbury, Pa. Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle’s buying ships, _ Just to have them handy; Little Fonsey’s playing horse, And eating sugar candy. . We Can Tell You Of Low Prices—= >—Which Are Real. Yankee Doodle’s arms are long, They reach from Maine to Texas; The Don will know that something’s wrong When we hit his solar plexus. Yankee Doodle hates to serap, But when he has to do it He always makes the other chap Remember it and rue it. wn, _ he’ iii Yankee Doodle’s buying boats, His cartridge mills tre humming; Yankee Doodle feels his oats, And lively times are coming. — Cleveland Leader. dll ’ J9 > C It sets me ruminatin’— The way the whole thing runs; We preach ’gainst war an’ hatin’, But—keep on makin’ guns. + 100 We labor an’ we labor, An’ eddicate our sons Ter love their growlin’ neighbor, But—keep on makin’ guns. In summer time or sleetin’, “Blest air the peaceful ones!” That’s what we say in meetin’, But—keep on makin’ guns. [SUNY s nice Dining Ch Yer enemy—you love him, An’ Love, ter hug him, runs; You bless the roof above him, i { IR But—keep on makin’ guns. ’ J $ Sa “Peace! Peace!” is what we holler; (O we contrary ones!) Welve got Peace by the collar, A-glanein’ down our guns! — Atlanta Constitution. Grover CLEVELAND is outspoken for | patriotism in the present crisis. But then patriotism will come cheaper to | Grover this time than upon a former —roccasion: He will not-be required to furnish a substitute this time.— Wathe- ‘na (Kan. 32 Star. We Simply Present Facts! We have plenty of other styles equally as cheap. Visit our store and you will tind it pay= to deal with us, Johnson & McCulloh, SALISBURY, PENNA. - Dn. Mrreugrn, he whom a jury twice convicted of malpractice, charged wit causing the death of Sadie Beal, and { who received the insignificant sentence | j of 10 months in jail and. $300 fine, has been pardoned by the Pardon Board, which met at Harrisburg, last week. At the same meeting pardons were re- | | fused three young men convicted of | | stealing shoes from a freight car at { Rockwood. There is evidently some | $125 PER MONTH. | MORE MEN, $125 PER MONTH. WE WANT A FEW aes] Salesmen the year round. I.OCAL, Ny. G wd at once for territory, of :— A. H. HERENDEEN & CO., Geneva, N. ENER of ours. SPECIALTIES. OUTFIT FREE. - . A pisearcun from Bedford contains Y. the following: R.C. Haderman, Esq, IMPORTED STOCK. SEEDS. | dering Willie” queer justice in this great Quay state candidate for congressional honors from | | | Bedford, has made public a statement lin the Inquirer,denying that he is a I candidate inthe interest of the Hon.J.D. | Hicks, of Blair county, as was reported | in some of the papers, last week,incon- | nection with the Blair county primary election returns. The statement made [in Blair county was likely intended to | strengthen Hitks there at the hour of election. Mr. Haderman asserts that he is in the contest for himself alone, and will not withdraw in the interest { of anyone else.—_ Altoona Mirror. Tne R. G. Dunn Mercantile Ageney, in its report for last week, says: “In | spite of foreign conditions since the de- | struction of Maine, Feb. 15th, failures in three months are smaller thanin the | first quarter of any year since 1896; the ratio of defaulted liabilities to pay- ments through clearing houses has been the smallest for that quarter since 1881; the average of liabilities per firm | in business has been the smallest since [ 1880, and the average of liabilities per failure has been lower than ever before [in any quarter.” And yet “Billy” Bryan | continues to tell-the people that our country is going to the dogs. “Wan- is a queer fellow. “Pop” papers are ‘“amoosin’ things. The Kansas City Times, the loudest mouthed calamity organ in the west. in a write-up of the business prosperity enjoyed by Kansas City wholesalers, ‘ headed it: “Prosper in spite of general depression ;” and then starts out with a sub-head as follows: “Kansas City’s wholesale dry goods houses have dur- ing the past year enjoyed the largest trade in their history.” If the above stated fact from the Times means any- thing at all, it means that the Timex i: a willful liar when it talks about gen- eral depression, because wholesales on ly enjoy prosperity when the rural dis- tricts are blessed with it.—1Wathen (Kan) Star. “For-more than half a century the | Somerset Herald has gone into a ma ! jority of the best homes in Somerset county,” says our esteemed centempo- rary of itself. The Herald is a self-con- victed falsifier. It has always claimed a circulation of 2.000, which isin reality a larger number of bonafide subscribers than it has. But now, since its list is ‘rapidly dwindling down, it becomes desperate and claims to go into a ma- jority of the best homes in Somerse! | mend NUMBER 11. county. Well that just depends on what the llerald considers a majority of the best homes. But at any rate the Herald is going down. That’s why it wails like a lone and lousy hyena. Peo- ple here remember the time that a Her- ald was put into about every box in Elk Lick'postoflice when the the mail was distributed on Wednesday of each week. Is itso now? Just go to the post-office on Wednesday afternoons and see the lonely little bunch of Her- alds distributed. They are so few as to scarcely be noticeable. Poor old Her- ald! Let it continue to bay at the moon and Tug Star. Latest War News. It is said that the President will not advise recognition of Cuba. It is said that he will repeat his argument that Cuba has not the elements of stability entitling it to the status of statehood, but it is intimated that he will recom- intervention. The House may accept Mr. McKinley’s program, but strong Democratic opposition is looked for in the Senate. General Lee ‘is ex- pected to leave Cuba without further delay. Foreign pressure and papal mediation may bring Spain to terms, but it is believed in Washington that war is now nearer than it has been at | any time since the outbreak of | civil conflict. [of affairs as we Zo to press. Another [ day will likely bring forth startling de- velopments. Mention the Charities. For a period of fifty years the Ilerald | has been owned and controlled by its present proprietor. During that time it has encouraged and generously sup- ported every enterprise undertaken for | the advancement of the county. It has given thousands of dollars in cash and advertising to worthy local charities. 1t has paid all of its obligations and no man can say that the Zerald owes him | The above should be taken with salt. “Timmie,” be more explicit. Render an itemized statement of the thousands you have given to local charicies. best people .of. Somerset speak differ- ently of the [flerald. Over there it is publicly denounced as a greedy, grasp- ing.grinding, selfish old fossilized news- paper that has grown rich on ill-gotten political boodle—a newspaper that has long ago outlived its usefulness. ILet anyone go to Somerset and inquire of town, concerning the Ilerald’s and the picture painted will be entirely ent nonentity of an editor. Perhaps tions, and perbaps it paid some of thew with Phil Sheridan Oil Company money. were taken in by Col. Seull’s oil scheme would like to know about this. Besides that, know what real obligations are. is it, “Timmie?” Mr. Martin’s View. Secretary of the Commonwealth Mar- tin, when approached by a newspaper correspondent and asked if in his judg- ment the results of the recent prima- ries in Lancaster, Indiana said that if he were Colonel Stone he would take an entirely different view of the situation. He had the of the three mentioned counties before him, and had evidently been making an cantly: “When within a few days’ such rock-ribbed strongholds as Lan- ulars’ county as Indiana is rescued by less than 100, both after desperate strug- gles; and little name more than 3200 times without or- ganized effort, and the difference in the total vote in these three counties falls within the thousand mark, it has adan- gerous look to me.” Cost of War. A naval battle now-a-days is the cost- liest in all the history of wars. The fleet of the United States opposed to the fleet of Spain, in active engagement for one day (sunrise to sunrise) would eat more money than many of the wars of the past. It would cost $15,200 to fire Sandy Hook’s mortars once. A shot from any of the big rifles is worth $650. In a two- hour engagement five ships could fire away $1,300,000 in ammunition. Now bear in mind, that the largest-calibered and highest-priced guns are only good for a limited number -of shots. Bo to value ef the gun divided by the shot- capacity—say $1,000,000 divided by 200, This is about the state | as much as a penny.—Somerset Herald. | The | the majority of the best citizens of that |! record, | different from that drawn by its pres- | the Iferald has paid all of its obliga- | At any rate some of the “farmers who i the Sculls are not supposed to | How | | mal. | example: | ty, with a population of 86.000, paid $337 and Blair | counties did not strengthen the eandi- | dacy of Colonel Stone, of Allegheny, he 4 i set county demands the appalling price returns | analysis of the vote, for he said signifi- | | on, time—in | caster—the unorganized opposition can | poll nearly 9,000 votes against the reg- | 12,000, and hitherto so staunch a | Blair scratches one | this cost per shot for ammunition, you | must add the quotient of the original | equaling $500. To supply our present warships with needed ammunition costs $6,800,000. To Change Inauguration Day. The Senate committee on privileges and elections favorably reported a joint resolution proposing an amendment to Jonstitution changing Inauguration day from March 4 to the last Wednes- day in April. It is in these words: “The term of office of the President and Vice President and of the fifty- sixth Congress shall continue until the last Wednesday of April, in the year 1901, at noon, and the last Wednesday in April, at noon hereafter be substi- tuted for March 4, as the cummence- ment and termination of the oflicial term of the President, Vice President Senators and Representatives. Even the Ladies scold. Pa., March 28, 1898. Enitor Star: —I cannot help writing Tue Star an approving not on its pres- ent course. There is nothing quite so despicable as a sham reformer. To my mind there is no surer sign that a pub- lic official is worthy of public confi- dence than to see a pack of notorious | human wolves at his heels, yelping “Reform!” That letter from the | Somerset correspondent, “Fact,” pub- | lished in Tie Star, speaks volumes in its condemnation of the “reformers” who wanted to “reform” $1,701.00 out of the county treasury in one great ‘scoop.” But it seems to me your cor- | respondent did not finish his compari- json of the cost in the other counties | with the cost of publication of the gen- | eral election proclamation in 1896 in { Somerset county. Would it not be a | fairer comparison to give the popula- tio of the other counties? My late husband moved out of Milford town- ship just one year before the Hon. John | C. Weller made that free distribution | of Smull’s Legislative Handbook. Will you please, Mr. Editor, refer to your “Smull” and give us the population of | those counties? Aunay Hoa. | Right you are, Anti-Hog! The popu- Iation is the very soul of the compari- !son. We refer to our Smull’s Hand- book,which is not a relic of the Milford school director campaign, but of more recent date, and just as reliable. We | reproduce the table given by “Ifact,” and give the population of each county | in the right-hand column: MEYERSDALE, the | | COUNTIES. NO. PAPERS. ror. 1890 Lebanon McKean....... i Mifflin......... AMT. Joa | Northampton.. Venango ...... {AVarren ....... I Washington ...: Wayne Krie.... =.=... Somerset ...... io Gu 10 DSH Iere is another demonstration of the well established fact that the percep- | tion of woman is superior to that of Judging from her name, our correspondent is not a ‘new woman,” either. Yes, dear “Aunty,” you have scored a point. Take Erie county, for The tax-payers of Erie coun- for the publication of the same election proclamation for which the great “Journalistic Hog Combine” of somer- (of $1,701 in Somerset county, having but 37,000 population by the census of 1890. The comparison between Somer- set and Northampton is still more ap- palling. Then take a glance at Leban- McKean, Venango, Warren and Washington. What a spectacle of “re- | form,” for Somerset county! “How long, oh Lord, how long” will these “reform hogs” be permitted to impose upon publie credulty? This one ex- ample ought to satisfy the yearnings of | the most ardent Scull tax-payers for “reform” of the “Lucifer” Smith and | “Timothy” Scull stripe. The old “Ra- { zor-baek” of the Meyersdale Commercial has brought suit against the county for his full share—$537. Why don’t “Po- land China Tim” and “Red Jersey Bob” bring suit for their share of the spoils? In this case Smith’s motherly ship must do all the “rooting” fo Somerset shoats. It’s a case of “root hog or die.” - Aa ivi ae Mr. Reea’s Joke. Pittsburg Dispatch. Recently Speaker Reed wished to see a man on some pending legislation and telegraphed for him to come to Wash-_ ington. The man took the first train available, but a washout on the road made it impossible for the train to pro- ceed further toward its destination. Going to' a telegraph station he sent | this dispatch to the Speaker: “Washout on the line. Can’t come.” When Reed read the message he sent | back this reply: “Buy a mew shirt and come anyway.”
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