~ @he Somerset - SALI VOLUME IV. sher’s Book Store, SOMERSET, PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL VoVoIVOIVIVIS Hi This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to | 90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties. | Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West Virginia. | We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city markets. At this season we are specially pushing Fishing Goods. stock of these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices! lowest wholesale. Special attention is also being given to Base Ball Goods. We Carriages. Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station- Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- r ery and Harmonicas. vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes, Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, | News and Stationery Store. Chas. IH. Kisher. Lowest Prices In Town! Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents. 4 1bs. Best Rice 10 Ibs. Navy Beans 15 Ibs. White Hominy 7 Cakes Coke Soap 6 Cakes Waterlily Soap H1bs. Good Raising. ................. EF Men's Suits from $4.00 up. Children’s Suits from 75 cts. up. Boys’ Knee Pants from coats, overalls, etc., at prices “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- bers’ prices. We warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, TIE ABOVE ARE CASH PRICES. Barchus& I avengood, Lancaster Ginghams.. ......5 cents per yard. Good Cashmeres from ........12 1-2 cents up, Nery test Cotton Bats... .. onc 0 0 10¢. Good Calico 4 cents per yard. Best Calico. ./................cocenis per vard. 25¢. 8 Good 7-cent Muslin reduced to 5 cents. 25 cts. up. away down. Salisburv, Penna. | Y (7et 1t At Jeflery’s li When in need of anything in the line of Pure Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Thompson's Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, ctc. CALL AT -—— THE LEADING GROCERY. Space 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. JEFFERY, Opposite Posto tice. - - Grant Street. (rain Hlour and Heed! 8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the With greatly increas- 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 CABBOX OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- load lots. We are also Headquarters F'or 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. IN THE KOONTZ BUILDING! Having some time ago purchased the Koontz property, all those interested in Monumental work will find me in what was once known as THE KOONTZ MARBLE WORKS. 1 am prepared as never before to offer to all those in need of Monumental work, from small Headstones to Granite Monuments. PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF. None but the best of Marble and Granite, and workmanship the finest. I make Granite work a specialty. You will be surprised at my prices. Call and see me. ALBERT J. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa. Our are also doing a nice trade in Hammocks and Baby and Doll | Men’s working pants, | | REPUBLICAN TICKET. | | STATI. For Governor, Wr. A. STONE, t For Lieutenant (lovernor,— J. P. 8. Gomis, For Judge of Superior Court,— W. W. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. Wat. DD. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. Ir Secretary of Internal Affairs, — James W. Larra, Of Philadelphia. r Congressmen-at-Large,— GaLusia A. Grow, Of Susqehanna County. S. A. DavENPorr, Of Erie County. | COUNTY » State Senator,— J. J. Honrarzer, Of Meyersdale Borough. (Subject to the decision of the District Conference.) Foi Congress, — F. J. KoosEr, (Subject to the Decision of the District Conference). For Assembly,— W. H. KooxNrTz, Of Somerset Borough. S. A. KexpALL, Of Meyersdale Borough. For Associate Judge, — A. F. Dickey, Of Somerset Township. * District Attorney,— Rurus KE. MEYERS, Of Somerset Borough. ‘or Poor Director, Apay NS, MILLER, Of Lincoln Township. land, has accepted the position of See- retary of State, vice Secretary Day, re- signed. | cellent man for the important office. “mn ocratic editor says: trol seck the political bed-fellowship of Republicans in Missouri and of Demo- crats in Kansas. In sleep with the negroes to get into of- | fice, and in Oregon they marry the | Democratic party on the referendum plan to secure patronage. In Chicago they go to bed with the Anarchists, | and in Virginia they co-habit with the Readjusters and Repudiators.” trying to claim all the credit for the de- struction of Cervera’s fleet. | such is not the case. The Secretary of the Navy gives each of these gallant naval commanders great praise, but he cites the fact that Sampson has been very unjustly abused by the public. He states in his letter that Sampson had greater responsibility resting upon him than any other man in our Atlan- tic fleet ; that he is one of the finest or- dinance officers in the Amenican navy and that he has carried out all his in- structions to the letter. Surely if there is a cordial feeling existing be- tween Sampson and Schley, that is suf- way tried to hide any credit due to Schley, and if Schley feels that he has no kick coming, the public has no oec- casion to set up a howl. It is the God-given right of the American citizen to kick if he wants to, but we sometimes think that we Amer- icans are too much given to fault-find- ing. Things often seem to be moving too slow for us, and in the matter.of im- portant reforms in the interest of the people, needed changes are frequently too slow in being made. But this is the case everywhere. However, it can- not be denied that the American peo- ple sometimes kick and find fault when there is no real good reason for it. For instance, just think of the fault that was found with the government for not pushing the war with greater rapidity. From some of the greatest of newspa- per men and public speakers down to the saloon bum and street corner leaf- er, it was frequently, yea. continually remarked that the administration at an unnecessary drag of the war. Things were moving too slow, according to the fault-finders; but if we look matters squarely in the face, what ‘ground Of Allegheny County. Of Lebanon County. Of Somerset Borough. | Jonx Hay, our embassador to Eng- Mr. Hay is considered an ex- | Or the Populist party a western Dem- | he men in con- | Alabama they | It is about time for the newspapers to | let up on accusing Admiral Sampson of | Some pa- | pers are still trying to create the im- | pression that there is bad feeling be- | tween Sampson and Schley, but Secre- | tory Long, through an open letter, says | 3: : : : | ficient evidence that Sampson in no | Washington was making a failure and SBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1898. was there for fault-finding? None whatever. It only took _the United States about three months to conquer Spain, and if we consider all that has been done within that short time, we are amazed and made to marvel that so :| much could be accomplished in so short a time. At the outbreak of the war we were not prepared at all for the con- flict. True, we had men emough that were anxious to volunteer to fight Spain, but where were the guns, uni- forms and munitions of war so neces- sary to equip a large army? We didn’t have them. Besides, the volunteers had to be drilled, and many other dif- ficult problems presented themselves that had not been thought of by the average citizen. Yet within the short space of about three months all these obstacles have been overcome and Spain is conquered. Isn’t it really marvelous? It was quick work, indeed, and all the world marvels at Yankee pluck and our ability to do quick and effective work in time of war. With the Spanish navy practically wiped from the high seas, with all her colon- ial possessions practically in the hands of the Americans, and all this in three i months, and without the loss of a sin- gle battle, what cause is there for fault- finding in regard to the war? “Timmie’’ Gives Advice. History repeats itself, and so does the manager of the Scull paper, for within the last eighteen months “Tim- mie” Scull, late member of the Repub- lican State Central Committee (now re- tired for want of influence) set forth in the columns of the family organ his re- flections as to the Congressional con- | ference of 1898, and which he reasserts | in last issue week’s of that sac red poli- tical organ,thus: “We understand that the Republican Congressional conference for this, the Twentieth district, will convene in Johnstown, early next week. The can- didates are: F. J. Kooser, Somerset ; Joseph E. Thropp, Bedford ; J.D. Hicks, Blair; Alvin Evans, Cambria. In ar- i ranging for an early meeting of the conference the several candidates are | to be commended. Now let them make where the majority do not usually go, such as hotels, stores, barber shops or saloons, or 1n out of the way places where they are not generally seen, as on billboards, telegraph poles, barns and fences. There is entirely too much chance business about this, and the re- sult is, that only a few selfish persons hunt up these notices for the purpose of using the information for their own selfish ends. As there are but few persons who do not read their local papers, the offici- als in some localities have adopted the wise method of publishing all such no- tices through thé newspapers. And it would be a wise proceeding if all pub- lic officials would adopt the same meth- od, as it is a matter of great interest in the way of conducting a wise and eco- nomical local government. DEWEY AND MERRITT TAKE MA- NILA. Last Saturday Admiral Dewey and General Merritt made a joint attack on Manila, not having heard that peace was declared, and after a battle of two hours the city surrendered and is now in the hands of the Americans. Cap- tain General Augusti fled and was tak- en to Hong Kong by a German war ship. made with all possible dispatch, and 100,000 American troops are to be mus- tered out of service and sent home within thirty days. This will leave 116,000 still in service, and these will be retained until all questions with Spain are settled. THEN AND NOW, How Business Was Done 25 Years Ago, and How it is Done To-day. Twenty-five years ago, says an ex- change, advertising was known, but not | known as it is to-day. There was the ments in the local newspaper, and the | | | { a nomination within a reasonable time | and avoid any such disgraceful strug- gle as that of two years ago. We be- lieve the Republican voters of the dis- trict are ready to give unanimous and hearty support to the candidate nomi- nated, whoever he may be, but they | are not in a humor to quietly submit to a repetition of the proceedings of two years ago, and the several candi- dates should bear this in mind when their conference meets to-morrow. For the good of the party and the success | of the entire ticket a nomination should | poster, the seldom changed advertise- few pages of advertising in the back part of the magazines. Advertising was not considered commodity, and even the advertisers themselves did not recognize its neces- sity. where, practically in every publication published. The business or profession of adver- | tising columns or pages of the newspa- | per or magazine is as interesting as the literary or news matter. Advertising is recognized as a friend | to the public, and some of the papers | | and periodicals purchased are bought | for | for their advertising as much as their regular reading. Many a reader reads the .advertisements first, then | skims over the literary matter. be made as speedily as possible, at least | | within the next fortnight.” make believe that as a politician he to behold him in all his fairness and purity as he talks about four men mak- ing a Congressional nomination with admonish them. “Now let them make and avoid any such disgraceful strug- | gle as that of two years ago.” which he can have nothing to do but | jpg. The newspaper that prints all the new announcements is the family paper | | of the town, and is taken as much for The prodigy of the old family would | appeals to the high court of the people ! | its advertising as for its news and mis- | cellany. Few now-a-days do any shopping without first consulting the newspapers. | You read the advertisements carefully, and then you go to the stores advertis- | You do this because the store that advertises is generally the store a nomination within a reasonable time | with the best bargains. There is every reason why the store | that advertises should be the store to The lines quoted are certain proof | trade at, for the proprietor of that store that since “Timmie” has been kicked has confidence in his goods suflicient to out of the Republican state organiza- [tion ; since he failed to dominate the | Somerset county primaries; since his | power as a director of things that per- tain to public printing at the County | whether he sells or not. announce them, and he wants trade badly enough to ask for it. Nobody wants to buy of the store- keeper who does not appear to care Nobody cares { Commissioners’ office looks like (0) he | to eall socially where he is not invited, | has contracted the disease known to | the medical profession as amnesia, a disease brought about by long and un- | remitting grief during the hot season. | | little man should have forgotten to have informed the Congressional con- ference of 1898 that a dose of loose and tight rolled tickets, mixed with a few crumbs from the rich man’s table, would be certain to give relief to a bad case of Congressional Conference con- stipation; that the remedy had been tried in 1892 and gave entire satisfac- he has forgotten that in 1897 his chair- man digraced the Republican party by calling aff the primary election ; that he had his chairman disfranchise the Re- publicans of the county and then, in order to avoid remorse, the same little | leader hardened the conscience of the old rhinoceros with an application of “Barker’s liniment.” Poor old “Tim!” He’s no longer in the swim, and now nobady cares a durn for him. ! Needed Legislation. Oakland Jeurnal. : Legislation is much needed to compel the publication of notices concerning local government, such as town, vil- luge and school matters, in the local newspapers. Taxpayers should not be car. pelled, as they are now in mapy in- stances, to hunt for them in places It is certainly too bad that this grand | tion. “Timmie” is also to be pitied that | and the principles of the ethies of soci- ety apply to the practicabilities of buy- ing. You naturally assume that the store | which does not bid for your trade does not carry the goods you want. The advertising columns are news columns, and you read them because experience has proven that by follow- ing the advertising you get the most for your money. A Record to Stand On. Pittsburg Times. Senator Hanna in an interview yes- terday said that he regarded the silver issues as dead, and that the Republi- cans would make the next campaign on the issues raised by the war and on their record in war. It is a splendid record to stand on. There is a tre- mendous amount of kicking about the war and the manner in which it is be- ing conducted just now, but when we look at results nothing could be more satisfactory. In a space of less than four months we have practically an- nikilated the Spanish navy and stripped Spein of Ler colonial possessions in the. two oceans. The administration,though as far as the army was concerned, its hands had been tied by the long in- attention of Cor to the needs and [ requirements of this branch of the ser- vice, has accomplished this without meeting with a single repulse, and with Peace negotiations will now be | a To-day adverting appears every- | NUMBER 36 a minimum of loss probably never equaled in operations of like tude. magtii- Said by One of Cervera’s Officers. Chicago Record, Annapolis Letter. “Did you expect to escape?” “No; we expected to die. have said, the sailors knew the fate that awaited them, but there was not, an oflicer on the tieet who did not feel that his end had come, only one chance, a slight possibility that one or perhaps two of the vessels might escape. The arrangement of the Yankee fleet was favorable. The look- out told us that the New York had gone to the east and the Brooklyn was the only ship in sight that could out- sail the slowest of our vessels. It was the intention to ram the Brooklyn im- mediately and sink her, even though one of our vessels went down with Ler. Then it was hoped the others could out - run the battleships. Our plan failed | because we could not get near enough | to the Brooklyn. She did not close in on us like the Texas and Oregon, bui | stood off at long range, and when the Maria Teresa started for her she made a wide sweep and ran away. Cervera asked Commodore Schley why he didn't I come nearer, but got As nothing of There was { | | | | i no satisfaction | But the Maria Teresa was almost in | stantly disabled by shells from the { Texas, which met her at the mouth of | the harbor, and the Oregon was a great | surprise. We had no idea that any | battleship could make her speed. It was something we were not prepared for. It was the Oregon that prevented ur escape.” “What was the matter with the Span- | ih gunnery? Why didn’t your shots do more damage?” “First, because we had only a few {long-range guns. There were none on | the Colon and only two each on the other ships. had range-finders, and our sailors practice. The gunnery of the | fleet marvelous. Nothing finer fwas ever seen in the world.” i oO Then we no proper lacked Yankec was A Day of Old Men. Boston Globe. Although Gen. Miles | man than most of the general otlicers in the service at this time, he is much older than any of the men who com- manded in the Civil war. He is 58%, while Shafter is 62, Merritt 61. Brooke | 60, Wheeler 62, Lee 62, Otis 60, Kawk- ins 63. In fact. there is not even a brig- adier of note except Wood who is un- der 50 years of age. At the outbreak of the Civil war, on the other Land. not one of the men who were to gain dis- tinction in it was 50. Grant in 1862 was only 39. Sherman was 41, Sheridan 30, Schofield 30, Hancock 37, Custer 22, Meade 46, Hooker 47, Thomas 45, Kear- ney 46, Kilpatrick 25, Pleasanton Rosecrans 42, Palmer 44, Logan | Howard 31, Buell 43, Slocum 34, Burn- side 37, Banks 45. Butler 43, and Gen. Miles himself was only 22. CORBETT’S GREAT CRIME. is a younger Si ar 30), The Pugilist’s Father Kills his Wife and Himself. SaN Fraxcrsco, Aug. 16.—Patrick J. Corbett, father of James J. Corbett, the pugilist, shot and killed his wife at an early hour this morning. He then | turned the revolver upon himself and committed suicide. The tragedy oc- ' curred at the Corbett home, 520 Ilayes | street, over the livery stable occupied | by the elder Corbett. As near as the | time can be fixed, the shots rang out at 4:50 o'clock a. m., Mrs. Corbett be- ing killed as she was asleep in bed. For nearly half a century the couple | have lived happily and in perfect con- tentment together. During last eve- ning they had chatted pleasantly to- gether with two of their daughters, and at an early hour had retired without the slightest indications of what was to follow. Test of Honesty. Ar contemporary says that newspa- per subscriptions are infallible tests of men’s honesty. They will, sooner or later, discover the man. If he is dis- honest he will cheat the printer some way—say he has paid what he has not —declare he has a receipt somewhere —or sent money and it was lost in the mail—or will take the paper and not pav for it, claiming that he did not sub- scribe for it—or will move off leaving it come to the office he left. Thousands of professed Christians are dishonest in this respect at least, and the printers’ books and half kept families will tell fearful tales in the final judgment. HF TAKE NOTICE! H. H. Reitz’s Apple-butter and Cider factory will open for business on Aug. 22nd, 1898. Great improvements have been made at my factory. and my present process of making apple-butter is far superior to any yet introduced in this locelity. Call and examine for yourselves. H. H. Reig, Salisbury, a 8-25
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