The Somerset
Gounty Star,
VOLUME Iv.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898.
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NUMBER 13.
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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
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18 Ibs. Granulated Sugar
+. | Lancaster Ginghams........ 5 cents per yard.
:. | Good Cashmeres from
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+. § Very best Cotton Bats..................... 10c.
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Best Calico...................50cents per yard.
Good 7-cent Muslin reduced to 5 cents.
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Men’s Dress Shirts, direct from the manufacturers, from 39 cents up. All the latest nov-
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Su'ts from 75 cents up. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up.
Overalls, etc, at prices away down.
Men’s Suits from $4 up. Children’s
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Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARE CASH PRICES.
Barchus & Livengood,
Salisbury, Penna.
Get It At Jeffery’s!
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When in need of anything in the line of Pure
Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's
Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, etc.
CALL AT o—
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fpace is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here,
Call and be convinced that I sell the best of goods at the
lowest living prices.
My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years,
for which I heartily thank the good people of Salisbury
and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your
future patronage.
Respectfully,
J. 'T. J Ehpipy,
Opposite Postoffice. “
- Grant Street.
Grain Flour and Feed!
8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas-
ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the
wants of our customers in
ALL KINDS OF
STAPLE GROCERIES,
Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Etc.
In short anything to feed man or beast.
Furthermore, we are JOBBERS
OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car-
load lots. We are also
~~ Headquarters For Maple Sweets.
We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Eggs. Come and see
what advantages we offer.
S$. 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?
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