VOLUME 1V. SALISBURY, bi; A or anielalaving relies, but have IP-TO-DATE UP-TO-DA Large Couch, full springs, $5.75 Bed lounge, large size, cover- ed-in Body Brussels Carpet, Antique Center Stands, High-back Chairs, Large Arm Rockers, Bed-room Suits—Dresser with $7.90 .55 .40 .99 No old shop-worn goods. Johnson & Take advantage of our special summer offerings. We want trade and you need our Do 1is the favor of care- tully comparing our goods with ANY and ALL others. Then the great value for your dollars and supply your your goods. vou will realize we. give vou needs here. We with prices on pre-historic styles e are not trying to tempt you genuine bargains in FURNITURE. large plate mirror, full size Bed and Wash-stand, two Cane-seat Chairs.one Cane Rocker, one Oak Stand, seven pieces, $16.90 | Other Suits at $18.75, $22.50, $25.00 and $35.00, all BARGAINS in their class Everything new and up-to-date. Nc Culloh, ELK LICK, PENNA. Hisher’s Book Store, MERSET, PA. WHOLESLA E AND RETAIL! V0VOIDOIVOIVIN This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to | 90 town and country merchants Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland in this and adjoining counties. We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city markets. At this season w are specially pushing Fishing Goods. Our! stock of these Saige is large, full and complete, and the prices lowest wholesale. Special attention is also being given to Base Ball Goods. We are Carriages, Constantly ery and Harmonicas. also doing a nice rantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pe trade in Hammocks stock a full line of Staple Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- | ncils, Envelopes, Bill Books and | and Baby and Fancy Station- Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes, Receipt Books, School Bpoks and § Supplies, Miscellaneous Books and such oter ood as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, Néws and Stationery Store. Chas. H. Hisher. Te Dewey? :: Arbuckle’s 4 1bs. Best Rice 10:1bs. Navy Beans,........... 15 1bs. White Hominy 7 Cakes Coke Soap 6 Cakes Waterlily 5 lbs. Good Raisins. Soap... town. se lx ©. and Hirai Coffee, IE course we do, We sell eaper than any other Our prices spealk ZOOd= =tore in for theim- per pound only 10 ccents. heents por yard. 12 1-2 cents up, Lancaster Ginghams Good Cashmeres from .... Very best Cotton Good Calico Best Calico... Good 7-cent Muslin Bats fects per yard. Heents per yard. Ire due ed to Just Rec eived.™ A fine line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 30 cents to $1.00. Men’s Dress shirts, direct from the manufacturers, from 3 elties in Neckwear and Gents’ Furnishing Suits from 75 cents up. Overalls, ete, at prices away down. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up. Also a fine line 9 cents up. All the latest nov- Men's Suits from $4 up. Children’s Men's Goods. ~ Poor Director, Apay S. MILLER, Kaxsas subsribed for $5,000,000 worth | of the new government bonds. Verily, | how the Octopus and the Dragon do: | come west. There is great cause for | alarm when the down-trodden and op- pressed people become bloated bond- | holders and operators of the destruct- [ive money power. Just think of it, | Kansas people buying up Uncle Sam’s bonds. It is all done to pinch {it is highly in order for the * { sound the alarm and Pop? to hoist the danger’ signal.— Wathena ( Kan.) Star. S-1. MeCarce K writing the North danerican Review, says: “We would es- | teem the Spanish war a reasonably cheap investment, if it will only intro- | duce to our people the economic advan- tages of popular bonds (i. e., bonds in | small denominations in which all our citizens can invest), and if it will {ten the day when the American inter- est-bearing debt, under future renewals is taken trom syndicates | the pockets of the wage-earners of the | United States. This will be aceom- plished when the bond in small denom- inations, from time to time, is offered {to our people when the time come it knell of fiat money and guarantee of public credit.” will be the the surest Tue plea being set up by Quay,Stone land some of their fool friends, to the effect that our whole Republican state ticket must be eleced in order to up- i hold President McKinley's administra- tion, doing our ticket more harm | than good. The people have not yet forgotten that both Quay and Stone voted with the Democratic minority when President McKinley’s war policy was under fire. It seems ratherstrange that these two men who were always | | against the President’s policy in the | halls of Congress are | afraid that his policy will not be up- held. If Stone defeated for Gov- ernor, it will be the fault cf Stone and Quay. They ought to let up on their fool taik and confine themselves to the is is real issues, unless they want to swamp | our party entirely. the Wathena true that it Tne foliowing from (Kan.) Star-is =o all-fired ought to set a whole lot of Republicans ; right here in Pennsylvania to thinking: { “The newspaper that lays down to cov- {ering up the dirty work of its party, i 8 | cowardly and a curse to the institutions | The newspaper that | { swallows every rotten dose of political | of the country. ‘corruption -that party manipulators to further their personal aims, is, indirectly, an enemy to its party. Politieal treachery and barter is what costs the party its power, and | | it is the duty of a paper to let those who manipulate the party know that ELK LICK POSTOFFIC , PA, Of Lincoln Township. | not know, the finances of the country, no doubt, and ! has- | and placed in | as an investment, and | | member of the State Legislature for a number of termsin the early part of the | now so badly! ai feet above T HURSD: AY, 4 AUGUST 11, 1898. they must be decent in easing the affairs entrusted to them, or suffer the exposure that, in justice, is thereto in- cident. On this rock we are willing to { build our house, and the only way to keep the party strong, is to keep it pure and free from dirty political chi- { canery. The Republican party will be { better improved and built up by de- nouncing and helping to wipe out the trickery which drives honest men from the party.” Work for the Army. Pittshurg Times. With peace apparently in sight the work of the army is not ended. Hawaii has been annexed to the United States, will be necessary both as a military precaution, even though no force will need to be exerted, and as a garrison | sible assault. keeping of the United States. fractory that bit of territory may prove tain that a ed there, and at the start the island. | capacity of the Cubans for self-govern- | ment, and their ability to establish a | government that will be acceptable and: | able to prevail, considering the antip-# {athy of the Spaniards still there to | {anything native, is to be determined. | | First of ull, many reforms must be in- | | troduced in Cuba by the United States, (and the presence of Hoi will be necessary for that pur- I pose. The new Cuba will be strictly | different from the Cuba that has been | In the Pacific we will find | { some responsibilities, and they may not | wherever a i overthrown. | ( be light ones. Soldiers go | hation has any responsible relations [with the rest of the world. The fact, rapidly becoming apparent, is that the war has opened up such a field for ex- pansion that we do not know, and ean- until the new relations are adjusted, when the army can get away i from the points where troops are now | stationed, or from those points to which troops may yet be dispatched. Peace | may come soon, but the army will not | be returned time, and from some will never be recalled. home points the “Frosty Sons of Thunder.” Why is it that the people of Somerset county are called the Thunder? This is a question that is often asked by people who do .not re- tside in our county, and there are many 1 Somerset county people who are them- selves unacquainted with the origin of | | the term. Many of our old citizens, of course, Know all about its origin, but it is safe to say that the majority of the people of Somerset county know noth- sng about the facts in the Somerset Staudard last week answered (the question in full, and while it was {| not news to the editor of Tur Star, it | be news to many of our case, will to the question as it last week ed in the Standard: Alexander Ogle, whe in 1832. and “(venerai at Somerset who was a present eentury, and subsequently was a member of the national Congress,was the author of the term "I‘rosty Sons of Thunder.” le the term in ‘a speech either in the Legislature or the Congress, applying it to his constitu- used lency, and ever since the appelation has | | been applied to the people of Somerset leounty. The term was given special ! prominence at the national encamp- tment of the GG. A. R., held in | ton City in 1893. when a banner bearing | it was carried by the Post | county. The banner appeared in car- toons of the great parade, which were | published in the leading papers through | out the country. The meaning term “Frosty Sons of Thunder” course, conjectural. original in manner and speech, and a coiner of phrases. When be coined is, of propriate appelation for a people living at an altitude between 2,000 and 3,000 ! sea level, where one can taste the frost in the crisp air, and be- tween two giants of the Appalachian | chain, over whose magnificent crests the thunderbolts seem to split.” EE — A Call for Yankee Doodle. Punxsutawney Spirit, There Is no greater bore in the world thak fancy, scientific music, such as | only the initiated can appreciate and enjoy. When an orchestra plays a | seleetion that is very difficult of execu- tion, and exhibits wonderful skill in its rendition. nine-tents of the audience is bored and theother tenth is poorly en- and while a government is in process | of establishment over there some troops | | to defend the new possession from pos- | Porto Rico is destined, | according to all rumor, to fall into the | How re- | cannot be told yet, but it is quite cer- | a garrison must be maintaip- | it may re- | quire a considerable number of men on | Cuba is a problem. The | a considerable | for a considerable | army IF'rosty Sons of | The ! readers. | Ifollowing is the full and correct answer | appear- | died | Washing- | from this | of the | General Ogle was | this one he evidently thought it an ap-| tertained. heart, and everybody is delighted. Their faces grow brighter, their pulses beat faster and every foot beats time. Fashionable music ‘is like some fash- ionable garments—very fine, but very nncomfortable. The Spanish and American Navies. | BY O. C. WAGNER, POET LAUREATE TO THE STAR. Old Spain, she had some war ships, Before the war began. They sailed on top the water, Asall good war ships can. She had a large, fine vessel, Viscaya was her name, And she was said to rival Our well built, handsome Maine. She made a friendly visit To the harbor of New York; The Dons had sent her over To size up Yankee pork. She looked like such a terror, As she at anchor lay, Her guns trained on the city, That some were heard to say: “She’ll mateh just any vessel That ever bore a gun.” jut they hadn’t seen our own ship, : The gallant Oreson, Perhaps they had forgotten We owned the Towa, The Massachusetts, Brooklyn And swift Columbia. New York and Indiana Are both fine vessels, too; In fact as fine as any That ever had a crew. We nlso have the monitors— The Terror, Amphitrite, The Puritan and Monterey, All anxious for a fight. And there’s the ood Olympia, The Concord, Baltimore, The Boston and the Raleigh On Asiatic shore. The cruiser Minneapolis, The old Katahdin ram, Also the gay Vesuvius That throws the earthquake bomb. We've many smaller cruisers, Gun and torpedo boats, All the'equal of their kind Of anything that floats. Now,Spain had many seamen, And captains by the score, Commodores and Admirals— W hat could she want for more? There's Admiral Montejo, And old Cervera, too, And Admiral Camara Who still commands his crew. We nlso have some seamen, And captains good and true, Brave and gallant commodores, And admirals one or two. We have a Dewey. Do we? I rather think we do. Just zo and ask Montejo Or any of his crew. We also have a Sampson, A Watson, and a Schley Who bottled up the Spaniards, Then winked the other eye. He waited patiently about “And oh! ’tis sad to tell, The Dons were forced to make a dash, Whild Schley, he gave them—well, The stately old Viscayva, The second in the line, Is not the ship New Yorkers knew, She’s pulverized so fine. Old Spain still has her war ships, Eut what a change is seen! No more they sail obove the waves, Because they're sub-marine. R. B. Hayes and the Farmer. While attending Kenyon college. former President Rutherford B. Hayes used to take long walks into the coun- try, generally accompanied by a couple of companions of a fun-loving disposi- tion. How this once got them into trouble is shown in a story which we find in the Philadelphia Press: One day they met an old farmer. Tha {him a patriarchal appearance, and | while he was approaching the students they arranged to give him a ‘“jollying,”’ which eventually terminated in the dis- | comfiture of the youths. | One of them doffed his hat with great | reverence and respect, as he said, { “Good morning, Father Abraham.” The second saluted the old farmer and said,"Good morning, Father Isaac.” Mr. Hayes, not to be outdone in affa- bility and politeness, extended his hand as he said, “Good morning, Fath- er Jacob.” Ignoring the outstretched hand of Mr. Hayes, the old farmer replied: “Gentlemen, you are mistaken in the man, I am neither Abraham, Isaac nor Jacob; but Saul, the son of Kish, who was sent out to seek his father’s asses, and lo! I have found them.” | | | | The Salt Habit. | Clinic. | The use of salt as a condiment is so | general and so universally believed in as necessary, that we rarely hear a { word against its excessive use, but | there is a multitude of persons who eat’ far too much salt,—eat it on everything, on meat, fish, potatoes, melons, in but- ter, on tomatoes, turnips and squash,in But let it strike up a bopular) air, or an old strain of music that ex- presses some natural emotions of the | | merous to mention. readers and | matter and to try and diminish the ex- son, | warrant | Creek i Reynolds, charging him with trying to | pot, burg 24 minutes late, with two engines, { liar long white beard of the farmer gave | Prost and on a host of foods too nu- To so great an ex- tent it is used that no food is relished which has not a salty taste, and this (|! hides more or less the real taste, which is often very delicate. Now,the amount [of salt required in the system is com- paratively small, and if the diet has | been rightly compounded, very little is necessary. Some go so far as te discard its use | altogether, but whether, this is wise or not we will not here consider. What | are some of thie evils of the excessive | use of salt? The effect is to paralyze the nerves of taste, or pervert them so { they cannot enjoy a thing which has not a salty flavor, and in addition there | is a direct tax on both the skin and the { kidneys in removing it from the blood. | Whether the skin is harmed by this tax we do not know. Possibly it is not | greatly injured, yet we know that few | people possess a healthy skin; { now pretty well settled that an excess- live use of | neys in its ! derangement and disease of these or- but it is does overtax the kid- removal, and that cases salt of gans is due to this use. It takes onlya { little time fo learn to enjoy many kinds and we advise our others to look into this of food without salt, cessive use of this condiment. We be- | lieve they will be better for it. Sententious a and Rhymey. A traveler, meeting a settler near a | house 1n the backwoods, the following { colloquy occurred : “Whose house?” “Nogg’s.” “What's it built of?” 1. 0ogs n “Any pelahhore “Frogs.” “What’s the soil?” “Bogs.” “The climate?” “Iogs.” “What do you eat?” “Hogs.” “How do you catch them?” “Dogs.” Alleged Boy Train-Wrecker. CUMBERLAND, Mb., Aug. 2— Will Cas- about 17 years old, was arrested to-day by Constable Hendrickson, on a sworn out by the George's tailroad Company's detective, wreck a train. Casson was given a hearing before Squire Thompson, this morning, and held for the action of the { Grand Jury.in $500 bail. It is alleged that Casson drove alarge piece of iron in the switch on that road | near Dry Run. The iron was discover- ed by the road’s boss earpenter, Mr. Deremer, in time to prevent a wreck. | It is said that the youth had a grudge { against Deremer. Peculiar Railroad Accident. Altoona Mirror. The St. Louis express met with a peculiar accident as it neared the de- last night. The train left Harris- Union the A journal on the rear right pony-wheel of engine 151 had become hot during the run,and about fifty yards below the Twelfth street bridge the wheel burned off the journal and rolled under the baggage car. It was fortunate that the train was running slow the time, else there might have been a serious wreck. The baggage eoach was derailed, but no one was injured. The train did not get away Altoona until 11:56 o'clock. It was one of the most pecu- accidents that has hoppened in years, and had it occurred when the train was going at fall speed, there might have been a terrible accident and a great loss of life. and when it reached Mt. lost time had been made up. at from An Historie Engine. Lonaconing Review. Jaltimore & Ohio engine No. 99, which hus just been laid aside at Graf- ton, W. Va., and will be consigned to the scrap pile, has quite a history. It is one of the Ross Winans camel engines, and was built in 1851. There are only four of this class of engines now remain- ing. During the late war this engine was one of several captured at Martins- burg by the Confederates, and hauled across the country by pike to Staun- ton, Va., under direction of Col. Thos. R. Sharp. President John W. Garrett, after the war was over, hunted up Col. Sharp and appointed him master of transportation, in recognition of the ability displayed in that unparalled achievement. Notice to Exchanges. Some of Tne Srtar’s exchanges will please take notice that our post-oflice address is Elk Lick. Some of our ex- changes are not being received regular- ly, on account of being addressed *“Sal- isbury.” tf