The Somerset Gounty Star, VOLUME Iv. SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898. \ 5 NUMBER 13. Ed We Can Tell You Of Low Prices=<% =—Which Are Real. II. Cha eh D 111 ice D 1s 1 5 cents for tl « Wore We Simply Present Facts! We have plenty of other styles cqually as cheap. Visit our store and you will find it pays to deal with us. Johnson & McCulloh, SALISBURY, '05°E¢ SI[(B], UOISUAXT 100.]-)~= PENNA. Money Saved. Money Earned Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 ccents. ° 4 1bs. Best Rice 10 Ibs. Navy Beans. 7 lbs. Lima Beans ........... Bn 15 Ibs. White Hominy 7 Cakes Coke Bonp 6 Cakes Waterlily Soap 5 1bs. Good Raisins 25¢: 18 Ibs. Granulated Sugar +. | Lancaster Ginghams........ 5 cents per yard. :. | Good Cashmeres from 12 1-2 cents up. +. § Very best Cotton Bats..................... 10c. i .§ Good Calico........&........ 4 cents per yard. Best Calico...................50cents per yard. Good 7-cent Muslin reduced to 5 cents. + Just Received.—= 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. All the latest nov- - elties in Neckwear and Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Su'ts from 75 cents up. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up. Overalls, etc, at prices away down. Men’s Suits from $4 up. Children’s <a. GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES! —® We carry an immense line of SHOES and buy direct from the celebrated manufac- turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—thereby saving fully 25 per cent. of job- burs’ prices. We warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARE CASH PRICES. Barchus & Livengood, Salisbury, Penna. Get It At Jeffery’s! Pa When in need of anything in the line of Pure Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, etc. CALL AT o— THE LEADING GROCERY. fpace is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, Call and be convinced that I sell the best of goods at the lowest living prices. My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years, for which I heartily thank the good people of Salisbury and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your future patronage. Respectfully, J. 'T. J Ehpipy, Opposite Postoffice. “ - Grant Street. Grain Flour and Feed! 8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas- ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the wants of our customers in ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES, Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Etc. In short anything to feed man or beast. Furthermore, we are JOBBERS OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- load lots. We are also ~~ Headquarters For Maple Sweets. We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Eggs. Come and see what advantages we offer. S$. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa. Sculls. Men’s Working Pants, Coats, NOW IT’S WAR. Spain Must Fight or Get Out of Cuba at Once. Tue Star feels safe in announcing to its readers that war is now regarded as a certainty. Both House and Senate have passed a resolution acknowledg- ing the independence of Cuba, and at the time of bur gcing to press (Wed- nesday evening) the daily papers have it that Spain has been given 48 hours to answer to the demands of the Uni- ted States. If she refuses to evacuate Cuba, it is said that the war will imme- diately open with a blockade of Havana harbor. The President will ask Con- gress to authorize a call for 80,000 troops, the National Guard to be given the preference. In the meantime troops and munitions of war are being hurried to the Aclantic seaboard and there is little doubt that cannons will be boom- ing before another week passes by. Spain continues defiant and says she will never consent to parting with Cu- ba. War, creul waris all that can be reasonably looked for now. SMOKED OUT. The bold attempt of the Scull machine and its stuffed chairman to again choke off the primary. didn’t work this time. The gang began to hear from the peo- ple to such an extent and in such tones | us to make them tremble in their boots. The expose of the ring’s dirty tactics made in last week’s Star, smoked them out of the dug-out and forced them to yield to the public demand. Chairman Berkley, the Scull cow-tail. has now given it out that the Republican pri- mary election will be held on Saturday, May 28th. At the time of this writing he has accepted the announcement fee of R. E. Meyers for District Attorney, but first required him to testify that he had voted the Republican ticket, last fall, and further to sign a paper agree- ing to pay, besides his announcement fee, such extra amount as the Chair- man may require of him as necessary for election expenses. Chairman Berkley of course knew that Meyers voted the Republican ticket last fall, and that he always was a good, true Republican; but he had to show his reluctance in some way, and for that reason all this declaration business was required of Mr. Meyers. You see the gang hates to go before the people, and, like all other drowning men, they are now grasping at straws and the merest technicalities. They will try to make it appear that every candidate’s repub- licanism is of a doubtful nature, ex- cept those who do the bidding of the It is an old dodge, however, and the people are not going to swal- low the bait. They have learned to know just how crooked and rotten the old Scull ring is, and they have discov- ered that the best, the cleanest, the most uncompromising and brainiest Republicans in this county are against the Scull ring and its foul methods. Just to show what kind of Republi- cans the 8cull ring is made up of, we call attention to the fact that at the Somerset Borough Republican primary, in 1893, the Scull crowd put up and sup- ported for Justice of the Peace, Solo- mon Uhl, a life-long and radical Demo- crat, to defeat Oliver Knepper, a life- long and staunch Republican. Of course they failed to elect their Democratic ally, but that did not discourage them. Two years later they made a contest for Town Council, but lacking sufficient strength to nominate their hirelings, they then became desperate and had J. D. Bwank, one of their strongest men, put on the Democratic ticket. But in spite of their fusion with the common enemy, they were given a crushing defeat at the polls. And this is not all. After President McKinley succeeded Grover Cleveland in office, and the Sculls connived to dictate the patronage for this district, what did they do in the matter of the Pension Examining board? Dr. Louther, of Somerset, who is a life-long Republi- can, an old veteran of the Civil war, a man noted for his ability as a physi- cian, and a man of high character and standing was an applicant for a posi- tion on said board. The Sculls had it in their power to get him the appoint- ment; but did they do it? No! They had appointed in his stead a most radi- cal and bitter Democrat, as all men in this county know. These are only a few of the disloyal acts of the Scull dy- nasty. We will give you more later on; but remember, first,last and all the time that they are a set of political leeches that should be thoroughly and effectually eliminated from the body politic. All they ever did in the party was to grease their own pockets and malign, slander and abuse men who refused to bow to their corrupt and aristocratic will. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, - The famous little pills. THe Scull ring, against the over- whelming sentiment of this district, gave a delegate vote in the National Republican convention, 1896, to Quay, instead of to-McKinley, as the majority of eur people demanded. “Timmie,” how much did old Boss Quay give you for that vote? “LuciFer” seems, or rather pretends to think that anything produced on a farm near Meyersdale is all right. There is no denying of the fact that some grand men and women are brought up on farms, but it can also be truth- fully added that lots of calves, even some in human form, are also the pro- duct of the farm. YEs, “Lucifer,” Pete reads your po- litical notes with much interest. Why shouldn’t he? It is very interesting to read the vaporings of an old jay like you, whose politics have been changing with the moon for these many years. It is interesting to note what really absurd stuff you publish at the dicta- tion of the Sculls, who own you, soul and body. A fool of your stripe is al- ways interesting and amusing. Ir will be remembered by many of our readers how the Meyersdale Com- mercial came out strongly for Joseph E. Thropp, for Congress, in a certain issue, in the fall of 1896. It will also be remembered how it throwed off on Thropp the week following and came out for Hicks. That is all the evidence anyone needs to be convinced of “Lu- cifer’s” double dealing. He is as full of two-faced capers as a yellow dog is full of fleas. Ir all of our wealthy men were as patriotic as John Wanamaker we could find no cause for complaint. He does not offer to lend his gold to the gov- ernment at interest, while he goes to Europe during the fight, but offers to pay his men for going, give them a job if they come back, give their families a pension if they don’t, and to go to the front himself if necessary. That’s the stuff of which true patriots are made. —Altoona Mirror. ThE Seull ring ghas ‘broken faith with the people of Somerset county, even turning down some of its followers; it has trampled on its promises, repudia- ted its contracts, laughed in the faces of its friends and disregarded its prom- ises to the people. Its stuffed chair- man announced that a primary election would be held, last spring, and its stuff- ed chairman afterward swore on the stand that he knew at the time he call- ed the primary that it was to be call- ed off. What do you think of such a rotten, corrupt and filthy gang? People are rapidly finding them out and the day of retribution is near at hand. “Lucirer” seems much elated over the fact that he has received some county printing from Treasurer Win- ters, and he says he’s going to be good and not charge more than legal rates. That's right, dear “granny,” but also see to it that you don’t pad the job to such an enormous extent that you will have to have your paper printed on the Herald press, as you had to do when vou and “Timmie” were engineering the election proclamation scandal, a few years ago. The Herald would hard- ly be able to help you out this time, on account of being so busy printing its usual campaign lies. The Scull organ has enough to do at present to hoe its own row and write editorials for its Meyersdale organette. Tue Scull ring, by its County Audi- tors belonging thereto, transferred over $9,000 of the county funds to the ac- count of the County Treasurer, also of the ring, and if their report had been allowed to stand unchallenged, a direct loss of $19,000 would have falled against the people upon the public records. The people caught onto the scheme, however, even if the auditors were twenty-eight days in setting up the job engineered by “Timmie” and “Fred- dy.” They hated to be compelled to ask permission of the court to correct the the outrage upon the tax-payers, but they were forced to do it, just the same. If it hadn’t been for Peter Sipe, the only competent and fair auditor of the board, it is hard to tell just how the scheme might have ended. Tue Scull ring has made the Repub- lican politics of Somerset county a by- word, a contempt and a reproach throughout even this most boss bedev- iled state of the Union. County poli- tics have become a laughing stock for the state and our State politics a con- spicuous example of the most shocking criminality of the nation. The moun- tains ef Somerset county are supposed to produce freemen ; but the said ring has reduced some people to the slavish service of a system dictated by a single boss for his own unlawful and destruc- tive purpusés. It has shackles upon the limbs of some citizens in this coun- ty who can no longer move, speak, act nor scarcely think except at the word of a self-centered charlatan. That is what ring system does. Under such system worth and manhood count for nothing. Under such a system a knave or a monkey may, by the accident of birth or chance, become like the weak and wicked Roman emperors, ascend- ant over thousands of better men. Souk figures just issued be the Sta- tistician of the Department of Agricul- ture are of especial interest to farmers in that they show the great improve- ment in the price of all farm stock and farm products in the past year. “The farmers of the United States,” he is quoted as saying, “have received some- thing like $130,000,000 more for their cereal erops than they did in 1898, and $80,000,000 more than for those of any preceding year since 1892. The hay crop, notwithstanding it was the largest with one exception ever raised, com- manded an increased price per ton; wool is higher, considerably higher than at any time since 1893; and all other products, with the exception of cotton, show a corresponding improve- ment over the condition of a year ago. The statistics relating to farm animals are still more significant. During 1897 the farm horses increased in value over $25,000,000, the mules over $6,000,000, the milch cows $65,000,000. other cattle over $104,000,000, sheep $25,000,000, hogs over $8,000,000, ete., making a total in- crease of farm stock of something like $240,000,000. The statistics show that this remarkable increase in values is well distributed over the country,there being not a single state or territory which does not report marked improve- ment in live stock, as well as farming products. In the so-called mortgage- plastered states of Kansas and Nebras- ka, the value of farm animalsincreased during the year $20,000,000 in the form- er, and over $22,000,000 in the latter, the increase being 24 and 41 per cent. re- spectively, Tue Scull ring has for many years manipulated the politics of Somerset county for the sole benefit of a single family—the Scull family. It has im- posed upon the confidence of the peo- ple, and for selfish ends it has belied and traduced good republicans and good citizens. It has direeted its malic- ious attacks against prominent and worthy leaders, who were republicans when the party was born; who fought for the party when it was weak and stood by it when it went through the blood and iron of the Civil war; whose lives are bound up and identified with republicanism, and whose political lives could breathe no other atmos- phere. These men the said ring and and the bosses of the said ring have wickedly, maliciously and feloniously assaulted with slanderous tooth and libellous fang. Furthermore, the said ring has deceived the people with artful words and false pretenses; it has pur- sued good men and good republicans with bitter hatred; it has maligned their motives and misrepresented their purposes ; it has sought to drive from the party’s ranks the best men and the most trusty leaders; it has fought with assassins’ enmity every voice but the voice of {ts own subservient tools. The said ring established a political pull whereby the Scull family were en- abled for many years to secure large contracts for public printing and sup- plies at the most exhorbitant prices, and tor all this the tax-payers have had to be fleeced, yea, worse than robbed. Are the people going to put up with a continuation of such outrageous, dis- graceful and damnable methods? We think not. Tne editor of the concordia Kansan, who is married and therefore compe- tent to speak, has a'few suggestions to offer upon matrimony, as follows: “Young men who marry and do not turn out to be as good husbands as we expected are the subjects of frequent roasts by home writers. There are two sides to this inatter, too. How many men are honest when the young man comes to ask for his daughter’s hand? In hundreds of instances he ought to say: “See here, youug fellow, May is a nice girl in many ways—in fact I like her pretty well, as she is my daughter. But the facts are that she doesn’t know as much as a rabbit about the duties that will be required of her as your wife. She can’t bake a loaf of bread to save her neck. She did try to bake a cake the other day, but it resulted in a mat- ter of such weight that we could find but one use for it, and it is now at the front gate in use as a stile block. She made a total failure of the only job of washing she ever tried. My undergar- ment came out of the effort to do some- thing real in life in bad shape. The lower extremity of my undershirt lacks about a foot of reaching the upper ex- tremity of my drawers; I feel like I had been parsed amidship and looked like the new breed of belted cattle that you see at a county fair. Of course she can thump a piano—but you havent got any any and neither of you can buy one nor are you likely to for ten years to come. If either she or you, or both should depend on her ability to eook to satisfy your hunger, you'll both have your feet under my table to enjoy ma’s cooking again. Young man, May is all ‘O K. as a bay-window geranium, but as a wife of a poor man she isn’t worth the powder on her face.” Now, if all fathers should make that sort of a speech when the case justifies it, there would be less cases in the divorce courts than there is now. The Carlists in Spain. Pittsburg Times. Civil war in. Spain need excite no surprise. The Carlists are taking ad- vantage of the distured condition of affairs there to make another struggle for the crown, and with the unpopular- ity of the queen, who is an Austrian, and the added dislike that will follow her if she submits to the demands of the United States, the Carlist presents himself in the guise of a patriot and a defender of Spain. The prospects would not be so bad were it not that the line from which Alfonso XIII, has de- scended has not successfully defended the crown for ths last half century. When Ferdinand VII. died in 18338 he left to succeed to the throne a daughter 3 years old. A law of Spain required that the crown pass to the brother of the monarch who left no son, and, al- though Ferdinand had repealed that law to make his daughterthe sovereign a large faction since known as Carlists took up arms in behalf of Don Carlos, the brother of Ferdinand. For six years a bitter civil war raged, the clergy siding with the Carlists. The Carlists were defeated, but the regency of the queen mother of Isabella was un- popular, and she was forced to abdi- cate. After the revolution of 1868, Isa- | bella fled from France. A repulic arose, and a king from Italy ruled in Spain before Isabella’s son,Alfonso XII, final- ly returned to Spain and succeeded to the crown. But to do it he had to fight the Carlists, by this time led by a grandson of the Don Carlos who began the trouble in 1833. Alfonso XII. died in 1885, and was succeeded by Alfonso XIII., whose mother is the queen re- gent, now in posession of the govern- ment. The ruling branch of the pres- ent dynasty is unpopular in Spain. It is a time ripe for the Carlists, for an unpopular sovereign, whose line has been overthrown and harassed as much as has that of Alfonso XIII. since the day of Ferdinand VII., affords a weak- ness that is a tempation to a pretender at any time. Object Lesson. Frostburg Journal. The first issue of Confederate money commanded a small premium in gold. This continued but a short while, as will be seen in the first item of the ap- pended record. showing what it was worth in gold at the dates named: DATE. June, 1861 December 1, 1861 December 15, 1861 February 1, 1862 February 1, 1863 June, 1863 ........ asavsareans 8 Japuary, 1864 November, 1864 January, 1865 April 1, 1865 After the last date a one-dollar green- back, itself far below gold in value, would buy from $800 to $1,000 until the moment when all hope of redemption was forever gone, Confederate money became inexchangeable. People who speak so glibly of irre- deemable money know nothing of the subject. if they have read history, especially Confederate financial history, they have read to no profit. They have read the latest and most telling example of the rise and fall of free and unlimited money without find- ing out that it fell in purchasing power as it grew more plentiful. As a matter of fact, Confederate money bore the promise of redemption, yet it fell to worthlessness. A fiat money man told the Journal, however, that this result happened “because there was no government be- hind it.” This turned out to be true. But if a failing government cannot WORTH. redeem its promises, what more isto be expected in the way of redemption by a strong, durable government that makes no promise to redeem? 7
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