Wahl's Meat Market! This place continues to be headquarters for Tender Steak, Juicy Roasts, Choice Dressed Poultry, Sausage, Pudding and Fresh Fish in Season. I aim to serve my patrons with the best in my line that the market affords. Thanking the public for a lib- eral patronage, and solicit- ing a continuance of the same, I am Respectfully yours, C. WAHL, Salisbury, Pa. SAVE MONEY! I have gone to the trouble to add to Salisbury’s business interests a well selected and complete stock of FURNITURE. oe When in need of anything in this line call and examine my goods and get my prices. See if I can’t save you some mone. ’ PRICES LOWwa= Thanking the the public for a gen- erous patronage and asking a con-, tinuance of the same, I am yours for bargains, ‘WM. R. HASELBARTH, Salisbury, Pa. ;Btore over Haselbarth’s Hardware. C.E. STATLER & BRO. —DEAERS IN— General Merchandise, Salishmw, P s Pa. We carry iin stock at all times a complete line of everything usually found in a large genéral store. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT! IFor Fine Dry Goods, Groceries, No- tions, Country Produce, Miners’ Sup- plies, ete,, our place is HEADQUARTERS. (Call and be convinced. C. E. STATLER & BRO. HAY'S HOTEL, Sal isbury, Penn’a. This elegant NEW THREE- STORY HOTEL is one of the best equipped hostelries in Som- erset county. Modern Fquipments of all kinds, such as Steamilicat, Warm and Cold Baths, Tele- phone, Fine Bar, ete. Centrally located with fine sur- roundings. Tables supplieed with the best the markets afford. Rates reasonable. C.T. HAY, Proprietor. Ji=tablished P.S HAY, —DEALER IN— Dry Goods Notions, Hats and Caps, 12573. 13o0ots and Shoes, GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, TOBACCO, CIGARS, ETC. SALISBURY, PA. FRANK PETRY & SONS, . CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS, ELK LICK, PA Contracts taken, e stimates promptly furn- tshed and neat and substantial work guar- anteod. TAKE NoTIicE! Frank Petry, included in this firm. 4 B. KRAUSSE. BOOT & SHOEMAKER. SALISBURY, PA. lepairing a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. Jr, is not > WwW. F. GARLITZ, : -Expressman and Drayman, W EST SALISBURY, PA. All at low n kinds of hauling and delivoring of goods ites. Your patronage issolicited. £m .C. M. "AY, The Leading Barber. Sor OProsiTE HAY's HOTEL. tue best tonsorial work go to 3 Gopd sir, pass in where the angels sing! St. Peter at the Gate. St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate With a solemn mien and an alr sedate, When up to to top of the golden stair A man and a woman ascending there, Applied for admission. They came and stood Before St. Peter, so great and good, In hopes the City of Peace to win— And asked St. Peter to let them in. The woman was tall, and lank, and thin, With a scraggy beardlet upon her chin. The man was short, and thick,and stout, His stomach was built soit rounded out, His face was pleasant, and all the while He wore a kindly and genial smile. The choirs in the distance the echoes woke, And the man kept still while the ‘woman spoke: “Oh, Thou who guardest the gate,” said she, “We two come hither, beseeching thee To let us enter the heavenly land, And play our harps with the angel band, Of me, St. Peter, there is no doubt— There’s nothing from heaven to bar me out. I’ve been to meetings three times a week, And almost always I'd rise and speak. I’ve told the sinners about the day When they’d repent their evil way; 1 have told my neighbors, I have told them all Bout Adam and Eve,and the Primgl fall; I’veshown them what they'd have to do If they’d pass in with the chosen few: I’ve marked théir path of duty clear— Laid out the plan for their whole career, I’ve talked and talked to’em,loud and long For my lungs are good and my voice is strong. So good St. Peter, you'll clearly see The gate of heaven is open to me; But my old man, I regret to say, Hasn’t walked in exactly the narrow way— Ae-smokes and he swears, and grave faults he’s got, And I don’t know whether he’ll pass or not— | He never would pray with an earnest vim, Or go to revival, or joinin a hymn, So I had to leave him in sorrow there While I,with the chosen, united in prayer. Heate what the pantry chanced to afford, While 1, in my purity, sang to the Lord; And if cucumbers were all he got, It’s a chance if he merited them or not. But oh, St. Peter, I love him so, To the pleasures of heaven please let him go! I’ve done enough—a saint I’ve been, Won’t that atone? Can’t you let him in? But my grim gospel I know ’tis so That the unrepentant must fry below; But isn’t there some way you can see, That he may enter who’s dear to me? It’s a narrow gospel by which I pray, But the Chosen expect to find some way Of coaxing or fooling.zor bribing you So that their relations can amble through. And say, St. Peter, it seems to me This gate isn’t kept as it ought to be. You ought to stand by that open there And never sit down injghat easy chair, And say, St. Peter, my sight is dimmed, But I don’t like the way your whiskers are trimmed. They’re cut too wide and outward toss, They’d look better narrower, cut straight across. Well we must be going our crowns to win, 80 open St. Peter, and we’ll pass in!” St. Peter sat quiet and stroked his staff; But, spite of his office, he had to laugh; Then said, with a fiery gleam in his eye, “Who's tending this gateway—you or 1?” And then he arose in his stature tall, And pressed a button upon the wall, And said to the imp who answered the bell, “Escort this lady around to hell!” * * * * * * The man stood still as a piece of stone— Stood sadly, gloomily there alone, A life long, settled idea he had That his wife was good and he was bad. He thought if the woman went down below That he would certainly have to go— That if she went to the regions dim There wasn’t a ghost of a show for him. Slowly he turned, by habit bent, To follow wherever the woman went. St. Peter standing on duty there, Observed that the top of his head was bare, He called the gentleman back and said: “Friend, how long have you been wed?” “Thirty years,” (with a weary sigh) And then he thoughtfully added ‘‘why?” St. Peter was silent. With head bent down He raised his hand and scratched hiscrown; Then seeming a different thought to take, ‘Slowly, half to himself, he spake: “Thirty years with that woman there? No wonder the man hasn’t any hair! Swearing is wicked. S8moke’s no good, He smoked and swore—I should think he would. Thirty years with that tongue so sharp? Ho! Angel Gabriel! Give him a harp! A jgweled harp with a golden string, Ggbriel give him a seat alone— One with a cushion—up near the throne! Call up some angels to play their best, Let him enjoy the music and rest! See that on finest ambrosia he feeds, | He’s had aboutall the hell he needs. It isn’t just, hardly the thing to do To roast him on earth and the future, too.” : So * . * * » They gave him a harp with golden strings, A glittering robe with a pair of wings, And he said as he entered the Realm of Day, “Well, this beats cucumbers anyway!” And so the scriptures had come to pass, “The last shall be first and the first shall be laet.”—Notes. ~The Old Flag Forever. She’s up there—0ld Glory—where lightnings are sped, She dazzles the nations with ripples of red, And she’ll wave for us living or droop o'er us dead— The flag of our country forever! She’s up there—O0ld Glory! How bright the stars stream! And the stripes, like red signals of liberty, gleam, And we dare for her, living, or dream the _ last dream ‘Neath the flag of our country forever! She’s up there—0ld Glory—no tyrant dealt scars, No blur on her brightness, no stain on her stars! The brave bjood of heroes hath crimsoned her bars— ; “She’s the flag of our country forever! _—Atlanta Constitution. i i + Tne: STAR, the Nickell Magazine and the New York Weekly Tribune, all one year for only $2.00, cash with order. By this arrangement jou get a good coun- ty-paper, a good city paper and a first- class illustrated magazine all at a trif- ling expense. Address all orders to! Tire Spar, Elk Lick, Pa. »he Eagio Screams Again. 1. What's this I hear, Columbia, dear? By the top of my bald noddle This must stop or I'll waddle Right in, Pecking like sin, With an A 1 scratch To match! Look out When you see me pout! I’m a bird, I am, Uncle Sam, A bad bird, And}I must be heard! What’s the matter wigh that contrary Old commissary? 11. Look out for the gravel When I travel! Hardtack, eh! Feeding ’em hay? No coffee or tea? Well, b’gee, Watch out What you’re about! My feathers are ruffled, TFate’s cards have been shuffled, And T’ll be onto you, Whir-r-oo! With both claws, “YWith cause; ; Yes, you, my huckleberry, My stingy, dried-up commissary! I11. The boys are fighting for me, Blgee! And when I need ’em, Somebody ought to feed ’em ! Well, I guess Yes! But they can’t fight, Not by a durned sight, With empty stomachs ; no, Nor stomachs fed on tow! Now, by the great rubby-dub-dub! If they do not get grub Right away, I say, I’ll drop on the seruff of your collar, And gee whiz! you will holler, My fairy, My bright commissary! Yes, you! Whir-r-oo! —Syracuse Herald. — etre Some of the Taxes Required by the Revenue Law. The new revenue law toprovide mon- ey for carrying on the Spanish-Ameri- can war, went into effect on July 1st. Following is a list of some of the things taxed and the rates of taxation for the same: On checks, 2 cents ; on telegrams and telephone messages, 1 cent each; on warehouse receipts, 26 cents ; power of attorney for real estate deals. 25 cents; mortgages, 25 cents up to $1500, and 25 cents for each additional $500 ; bankers licenses, $50 a year and an additional tax of $2 on each $1,000 of capital ex- ceeding $25,000. Bonds, debenture or certificates of indebtedness by any as- sociation, company or corporation are taxed 5 cents on each $100 of face val- ue; sales or agreements to sell any products or merchandise at any ex- change or board of trade of similar place, either for present or. future de- livery, 1 cent on each $100 or fractional part thereof. Dealers in tobacco and manufactures will pay a license rang- ing from $6 to $24 a year. In regard to the exemption on cer- tain numbers of cigars or cigarets, it is specified that the exemption is allow- able on 20,000 cigars or 20,000 cigarets, or on 20,000 of each. In computing the yearly sales to determine whether or not a dealer is liable to the special tax -| of $12 on sales of 50,000 pounds or over, it is decided that 1,000 cigars shall be estimated to weigh 20 pounds and 1,000 cigarets 4 pounds. Each storage warehouse recipt is sub- ject to a tax of 256 cents, except in case of agricultural products stored by the grower, which are exempt. The gov- ernment will print checks, drafts and similar dutiable papers with the stamp, engraved on them, in quantities of not less than $2,000 worth. el Am rn Baptist Young Peoples Union of America, Buffalo, N.. Y, July 14-17, 1898, B. & 0. R. R. For the occasion tickets will be sold at the low rate of one fare for the round trip, from points on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 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Family Financieriag. “They tell me you work for a doilar n day; How is it you clothe six boys on such pay?” “I know you will think it conceited and queer, But I do it Recause I'm a good financier. “There’s Pete, John, Jim and Joe and Wil- liam and Ned, A half dozen boys to be clothed and fed. “And 1 buy for them all good plain vituals to eat, And clothing—I only buy clothing for Pete. “When Pete’s clothes are too small him to go on, My wife makes ’em over and gives them to John. “When for John, who is ten, they grown out of date, She just makes ’em over for Jim, who is cight. “When for Jim they become to ragged to fix She just makes em over for Joe, who is six, for have “And when little Joseph can’t wear’em no more, She Just makes ’em over for Bill, who is four, “And when for young Bill they will do, She just makes ’em over for Ned, who is two. no longer “So you see, Pete, The family is furnished with clothing com- plete.” “But when Ned gets through with the cloth ing, and when *» He has thrown it aside, what do you do with it then?” “Why once more we go around .the circle complete, And begin to use it for patches for Pete?’ : —Rehohath Sunday Ierald. al ees BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. if I get enough clothing for Excursion to Chautauqua, New York. 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